"I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."

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Source : "Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis: Meditations on Computer Systems Development". Book by Patrick McDermott, 2002.

Robert Metcalfe

#Internet Quotes #Collapse Quotes #Supernova Quotes

“There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.”
“TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.”
“Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.103, Random House
“He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.”
“They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.”
“[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.”
“One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.60, Basic Books
“Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims.”

Source : "The Women's Mufti: Interview with Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei". Asharq Al-Awsat Interview, eng-archive.aawsat.com. April 6, 2007.

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