"We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins"

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Ellen Ullman

#Cities Quotes #Way Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“I want my foundation built, and I want to be strong enough to deal with everything coming my way.”

Source : Source: www.artistdirect.com
“God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.”
“Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.”
“I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.”
“I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.”
“A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.”
“I don't have a role model, but I certainly have always enjoyed Neil Young. I had the great pleasure and opportunity to watch him from the side of the stage on a couple of occasions, and his on-stage sound is incredible.”

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