"When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?"

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Why Not Quotes #Prison Quotes #Graves Quotes

“To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.”
“You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.”
“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”

Source : Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books
“I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...”

Source : "Being Black In America And Being African Aren't Mutually Exclusive". "All Things Considered" with Christabel Nsiah-Buadi, www.npr.org. February 11, 2017.
“The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.”
“Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine,”
“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”
“Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?”

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