"You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No."

-- Alison McGhee

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“You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.”

Source : "Former 'Family Feud' host Richard Dawson dies". www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.
“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”
“Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The new state church has taken the form of the public school.”
“Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.”
“If you like something, go for it.”
“Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.”
“You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.”
“There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools.”

Source : "An Interview with Terry Winograd: Convergence, Ambient Technology, and Success in Innovation". ubiquity.acm.org. October 2008.

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