"But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection."

-- Jon Postel

#Home Quotes #Connections Quotes #Computer Quotes

“I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.”
“The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.”
“Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.”

Source : Charles J. Chaput (2017). “Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World”, p.225, Henry Holt and Company
“For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free”
“Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create.”
“If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.”
“I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”
“There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive.”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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