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“Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.”
Source : Howard Staunton (1872). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.40
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“I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.”
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“You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.”
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“Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.”
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“I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.”
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“Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.”
Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
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“The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.”
Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press
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“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
