"The good old days are now."

--

Source : "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

Tom Clancy

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source : Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.146, Harvard Business Press
“She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor.”
“In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.”
“Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.”
“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”

Source : "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,
“In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind. Someone who still has the faith to believe that the more you give, the more you receive. Someone who's ready by thought, word, or deed to reach out a hand, in the hour of need.”

Source : Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.167, Revell
“Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

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