"Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic."

-- Michael Hersch

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“Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.
“It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.”
“The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.”
“To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.”

Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (2002). “Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and Strategies”
“My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a multitasking operating system that would run in 32 KB of memory with a hierarchical file system, application swapping, real-time scheduling, and a set of development utilities. The operating system and utilities were to run on the entire line of PDP-11 platforms, from the very small systems up through the PDP-11/70 which had memory-mapping hardware and supported up to 4 MB of memory.”
“Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.”
“Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.”
“Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.”

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