"The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services."

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Edward Felten

#Secret Quotes #Internet Quotes #Openness Quotes

“A migraine is the cockblock of writing.”
“You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.”
“Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.”

Source : "Backstage Backstory: Ann Demeulemeester". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 30, 2010.
“I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. 'Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!' she said. So I suggested the kitchen.”
“We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.”
“It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns. It is not dense. It is not profound. But it is also possible to put patterns together in such a way that many patterns overlap in the same physical space: the building is very dense; it has many meanings captured in a small space; and through this density, it becomes profound.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.41, Oxford University Press
“The best memories are those which we have forgotten.”
“The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.”

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