"[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time."

-- Luis von Ahn

#Annoying Quotes #Seconds Quotes

“Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.”

Source : Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), January 31, 2005.
“Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.”
“The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.”
“i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
“Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.”
“No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.”
“What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?”
“To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing.”

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