"Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless."

-- Jamie Zawinski

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“Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.”

Source : Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”
“You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”
“In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.247, F+W Media, Inc.
“A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.”
“If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.”

Source : The New York Journal-American, November 14, 1960.
“People want transparency in government.”

Source : "Rep. Elijah Cummings Leads Call To Investigate Trump's Business Entanglements". "Marketplace" with Audie Cornish, nhpr.org. November 29, 2016.
“I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)
“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.”

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