"If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy."

-- Jamie Zawinski

#People Quotes #Use Quotes #World Quotes

“It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.”
“Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.”
“I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.”
“The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.”
“True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf
“Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.”
“Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it... if we just take a look at it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Oct 09, 2013
“We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.”

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