"My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery."

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Source : Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.95, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Dashiell Hammett

#Monkeys Quotes #Way Quotes #Machinery Quotes

“The greatest single programming language ever designed”
“Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.”
“He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them. But what was he actually? He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantastica, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself.”
“A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.”
“He taught me to trust in tomorrow.”
“Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.”
“Genesee beer. The great outdoors in a glass.”
“If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.”

Source : Interview with Denise Kodia, www.mtv.co.uk. October 4, 2011.

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