"We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code."

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Source : "How Anarchy Works" by Paulina Borsook, www.wired.com. October 1, 1995.

David D. Clark

#Running Quotes #Kings Quotes #Believe Quotes

“When asked at age 7 whether he had ambivalent feelings about girls. No, I hate 'em!”
“I can't tell you how much I appreciate these young [Israeli] designers. There's too much strife in the world. If we become united in our creativity, not only in what we wear, but what we do, we will change the world. It's truly an honor to be around such inspiration.”
“I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”
“You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair!”
“You canâ€™t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with”
“For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.”
“They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.”
“Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.”

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