"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion."

-- Henry Adams

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“I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.”
“All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.”
“Today's science is tomorrow's technology.”
“Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.”
“Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch,”

Source : "Daft Punk: All Hail Our Robot Overlords". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.rollingstone.com. May 21, 2013.
“If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.”
“As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like youâ€™re a kid again, poking around in your parentsâ€™ closet, only this time thereâ€™s no chance of getting in trouble, so you donâ€™t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.”

Source : "The Dinner Diaries" by Roz Chast, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.
“Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel -- wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience,”

Source : "Hideo Kojima Predicts Console-Less Gaming Future" by Jim Reilly, www.ign.com. April 7, 2010.

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