"To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."

-- Linus Torvalds

#Technology Quotes #Trying Quotes #Microsoft Quotes

“The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.”
“Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.”

Source : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.18, Gallic Books
“Holland seems like a quaint toy.”
“Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.261, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“What you think and do today determines how tomorrow is going to be.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
“Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.”
“Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.”
“As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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