"An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name."

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Source : "The Humane Interface". Book by Jef Raskin, 2001.

Jef Raskin

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“You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.”
“Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.”

Source : D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”
“It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.”

Source : "Biology Major Bobby Jindal Pleads Ignorance On Evolution And Climate Science" by Joe Romm, thinkprogress.org. September 18, 2014.
“Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.”
“America is great, because America is free.”

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