"I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up."

-- Linus Torvalds

#Long Quotes #Vision Quotes #Trying Quotes

“A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.”
“Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.”
“When it was time for a player to go, he went.”
“Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.”
“The end of all being is the glory of God.”
“I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally I was under the misapprehension that philosophers are trying to figure out what is true, and that contemporary philosophers are mainly trying to figure out what is true about the mind. Of course Hume and Plato were trying to do that, hence my misapprehension.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1966). “Deephaven, and other stories”, New College & Univ Pr
“Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...”

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