"Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance."

-- Richard Stallman

#Awards Quotes #Giving Quotes #Rebel Quotes

“There is no contradiction between true religion and science”
“No one ever takes my side.”
“Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.”

Source : Vik Muniz, Charles Stainback, Mark Alice Durant (1998). “Vik Muniz: seeing is believing”
“Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 367), 1895.
“I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.”
“Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.”
“I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.”
“Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.”

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