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“We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.”
Source : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”
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“It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.”
Source : John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid (2017). “The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New Preface”, p.115, Harvard Business Review Press
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“Sinatra asked me out.”
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“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”
Source : Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.32, Penguin
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“I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface.”
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“I certainly dont feel like Ive been the victim of typecasting.”
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“It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 156), 1895.
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“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.”
