"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."

-- Jack Vance

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“The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they donâ€™t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work wonâ€™t be seen as being original, somehow.”
“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.”
“Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.”
“But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.”

Source : "Horrible histories". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2005.
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

Source : Linux kernel mailing list message, lkml.org. August 25, 2000.
“Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.”

Source : Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.15, Penguin
“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
“The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.”

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