"For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh."

-- John Bagot Glubb

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“There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.”
“As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.”
“The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.”

Source : "A Personal View of APL". IBM Systems Journal, 30 (4), 1991.
“Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.”

Source : Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.136, Harvard University Press
“I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.”
“Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.”

Source : Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916). “Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public Education”
“When you really want to show some love, keep the flowers and say it with spaghetti.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.”

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