"To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it."

-- Publilius Syrus

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“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
“We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.”

Source : "The mouse turns 40: An interview with Paul Saffo on technology’s past and future". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. December 5, 2008.
“Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground.”
“People do not hear our pain when they believe they are at fault.”
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.”
“Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“You're in for something special!”
“I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.”

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