"If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web."

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Source : Slashdot interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.

Philip Greenspun

#Ideas Quotes #More Time Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.”
“I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.”
“What you need is an idea.”
“[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics."”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.”
“If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
“An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.”

Source : Vera Brittain (1947). “On becoming a writer”
“Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.”

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