"I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live."

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Andrea Davis Pinkney

#Notebook Quotes #New York Quotes #Home Quotes

“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.26, The New Press
“The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.”
“I am trying my best to stay above the water. Right now ACID does not only offer animation. I offer real life productions as well and also compositing (animation composited into real life video)”
“A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.162, Bantam
“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.”
“As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.”
“I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] ... but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.”
“We are little animals walking on the ground, we have a certain life time, we are acting and interacting with different people, and we are trying to build things, but we are just some sort of virus compared to the entire sky. You always have to remember that the moon, the earth, the sun, they are like the real universal objects. We are just passing by, and it makes life more beautiful to think that way. More relaxing to think that way, that nothing is really important, because you give yourself much more confidence and you forgive yourself more things when you think about that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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