"Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center."

-- Paul Laffoley

#College Quotes #Islands Quotes #Yankees Quotes

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
“I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.”
“Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.”

Source : "Treating the Dysfunctional CEO". scott.a16z.com. December 6, 2011.
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.”
“I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.”
“I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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