"People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them."

-- Diane Setterfield

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“We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'”
“Why are numbers beautiful? Itâ€™s like asking why is Beethovenâ€™s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you donâ€™t see why, someone canâ€™t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they arenâ€™t beautiful, nothing is.”
“Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.”
“You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for.”

Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.
“Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.”
“I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.”
“More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.”
“Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, then their children should get married. On the other hand, if the parents don't like each other, but the children do, well, this is where sad poetry comes from.”

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