"Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know..."

-- Richard Stallman

#Art Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin”
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.”

Source : "The Coming Jobs War". Book by Jim Clifton, 2013.
“By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.”

Source : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press
“I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.”
“I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1982). “Collected poems”, Carcanet New Press ; New York : Viking Press
“Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.”
“To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.”
“Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.”

You may also like:

Bill Gates
Investor
Dennis Ritchie
Computer Scientist
Donald Knuth
Computer Scientist
Eric S. Raymond
Programmer
James Gosling
Computer Scientist
Ken Thompson
Computer Designer
Linus Torvalds
Software Engineer
Miguel de Icaza
Programmer
Tim Berners-Lee
Computer Scientist