"In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading."

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Source : "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

Gene Luen Yang

#Teacher Quotes #Reading Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.”
“A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function”

Source : Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”
“When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.”
“You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.”
“You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.”

Source : "Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wants Jobs for the Young". The Associated Press Article, October 11, 2008.
“Love without attachment is light.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 Edition”, p.260, Univ of California Press
“Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, Oreilly & Associates Incorporated
“Europe is a state with several provinces”

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