"Let us be elegant or die! --Amy"

-- Louisa May Alcott

“The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.”
“The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.”
“Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.”

Source : "Dominion", (p. 6), December 30, 1991.
“A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.”
“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2008). “So I have thought of you: the letters of Penelope Fitzgerald”, Fourth Estate (GB)
“I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.”

Source : "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.
“Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.”
“The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.”

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