"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."

-- Ted Nelson

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“Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.”
“...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.”
“I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.”

Source : "The Subject of an Arbus" by Jessie Wender, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2014.
“We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.”
“Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.”
“We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 477, 1895.
“If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.”

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