"A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism."

-- Fred Brooks

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“Then with Lucy [Hale], her little thing that I kind of learned from her is her country music because sheâ€™s obsessed with country and at the beginning, I wasnâ€™t a huge fan of it, but I was listening to some songs that she plays in the hair and makeup room and sheâ€™s also so funny, too. She does these character impersonations and theyâ€™re just so funny. Made up characters of course, but she can switch into someone else so fast. Iâ€™m always laughing at Lucy and sheâ€™s like a little Polly Pocket, you know? The tiny one.”
“What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?”
“I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.”
“I have changed my Ministers but I have not changed my measures.Iamstill formoderation, and Iwill governby it.”
“Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.”
“Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.”

Source : "Bob McDonnell corruption trial: the failure of a 'traditional American family'" by Tom McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2014.
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.”
“Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

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