"He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative."

-- Warren Winiarski

#Wine Quotes #Two Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.”
“Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.”
“Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.”

Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.24, Faber & Faber
“Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.”

Source : "AI can power this decade" by Kenneth Rogoff, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2010.
“The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy”

Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.107, Random House
“Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.”
“My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.”
“Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.”

Source : Speech at the House Judiciary hearing, www.cnet.com. April 24, 2008.

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