"The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load."

-- Anatoly Chubais

#Energy Quotes #Moscow Quotes

“I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them.”
“I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality.”

Source : Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult
“A good product can last forever.”
“When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.”
“Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.”

Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Introduction, 2002.
“I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.”
“They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!”
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.”

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