"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy."

-- Tim O'Reilly

#Artist Quotes #Creative Quotes #Obscurity Quotes

“No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.”
“Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.”
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”

Source : Time for Greatness (1942) ch. 7
“So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.”
“In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.”
“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
“Leap...and the net will follow”

Source : Valerie Bertinelli (2009). “Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
“Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!”

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