"In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program."

-- Jon Postel

#Writing Quotes #Jigsaw Puzzles Quotes #Class Quotes

“I'm terrified of performing live.”
“Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.”

Source : Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books
“I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.”
“My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.”
“The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.”
“Crisis and my experience of Punk Rock in Britain/Europe was anything and everything but "fun" and this sort of idea comes from people who were either not there at the time, or were and have an axe of some kind or another to grind about their own experiences with Crisis. The years between 1977 and 1980 were some of the hardest of my Life and they certainly contributed to Tony and I wanting to destroy the group in 1980 and head for sunnier pastures artistically, culturally, and whatever else we could find.”
“Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.”

Source : "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book edited by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.
“A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.”

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