"I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York."

-- Whitfield Diffie

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“If you get asked to do something that would take place down the road (say you get asked to speak at a conference that's a year away) and you wouldn't want to do it if it were taking place next week, then don't do it. This advice has helped me evaluate the opportunities that I truly want to dedicate my time to and those that I don't.”
“...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.”

Source : Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.”
“The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.”

Source : William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.15, Zed Books
“The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.”
“There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1989). “Soulstorm: Stories”, p.162, New Directions Publishing
“The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.”
“Vegetarians are hotter then meat eaters.”

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