"I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars."

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Hans Christian Andersen

#Stars Quotes #Years Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
“In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.”
“The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.”
“If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt â€” it's corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There's a lack of human maturity. So it's not a vain or futile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it's like cutting the wheat when it's still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it's blind.”
“I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.”
“I'd never have written the big books in London.”
“Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.”

Source : Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?”

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