"We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."

-- Butler Lampson

#Levels Quotes #Problem Quotes #Introducing Quotes

“I know not what tomorrow will bring.”
“We pursue that which retreats from us.”
“Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, "Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?”
“Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?”

Source : 1982 'Waving At Trains'.
“I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.”
“Melodies and ideas are always on my mind and always coming to me. I'm very thankful for that because if I didn't have whatever that is, that craziness, that openness, maybe, I don't think I'd be able to do what I really love to do, which is write great melodies and at least try to write great melodies.”
“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”
“She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.”

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