"One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people."

-- Herbie Hancock

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #African American Quotes

“More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.”
“There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0... It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician.”
“...be more guided by hope than fear.”
“The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker”
“When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.”
“as I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K."-a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets-I AM AN ANTICHRIST-Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today-listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang-my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.”

Source : "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century". Book by Greil Marcus, 1989.
“Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.”
“Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.”

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