"Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake."

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Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert. "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 31, 1934.

Constant Lambert

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“If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.”
“Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.”
“To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.”
“The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.”

Source : "Ed Balls: Yorkshire beef and Westminster lasagne parties" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.
“...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.”
“A biological agent, Iâ€™ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. Itâ€™s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.”
“My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a multitasking operating system that would run in 32 KB of memory with a hierarchical file system, application swapping, real-time scheduling, and a set of development utilities. The operating system and utilities were to run on the entire line of PDP-11 platforms, from the very small systems up through the PDP-11/70 which had memory-mapping hardware and supported up to 4 MB of memory.”
“Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.”

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