"The only way to write a book, Iâ€™m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. Thatâ€™s how you write a book."

-- Anne Enright

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“Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat is a requirement of life; life's purpose, one would hope, is somewhat broader and more challenging. Likewise with business and profit.”
“There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you're holding them. They've been safe inside your belly for almost 10 months, and now they're in your arms. Intuition kicks in, where you will do anything for them and you have all the tools inside of you to take care of them.”
“Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.”

Source : Martin Rees (2009). “Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning”, p.11, Hachette UK
“We have a small wish in 2008. We would like to conquer Asia.”
“Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.”
“Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally... All great photographs today are snapshots.”
“You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.”

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