"When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that."

“If the eyes are the windows to the soul, you're not going to like the view.”

“I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.”

“It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

Source : "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

“Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.”

“It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.”

Source : Colin MacInnes (1969). “The London novels: City of spades. Absolute beginners. Mr. Love and Justice”

“In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.”