"I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve."

-- May Sarton

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Touching Quotes

“Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.”
“If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it's not all art. Some of it's design, some of it's illustration, some of it's graphics, some of it's concept, some of it's business and some of it, hopefully, is art.”
“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”
“As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".”
“Most people are afraid to follow their dreams. The thought of failure is too much for them to handle so they never even try to achieve them.”
“My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.”
“If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.”
“I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.”

Source : "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

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