"I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse."

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Source : Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340

Egerton Brydges

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“There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousnessÂ .”
“A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.”

Source : "A different vision of the computer world". sydney.edu.au. April 4, 2011.
“I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.”
“Don't fall in love rise with it”
“Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be changed.”
“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”
“Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, till men of science, speculating, in their non-scientific intervals, like other men on what science may possibly lead to, have prophesied that we shall soon have to confess that the soul is nothing else than a function of certain complex material systems.”
“Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.”

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