"You havenâ€™t experienced awkwardness until youâ€™ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry."

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Charles Yu

#Dollars Quotes #Three Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.”

Source : Michael Parenti (2011). “The Culture Struggle”, p.130, Seven Stories Press
“I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.”
“Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.”
“Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.”
“Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.”
“What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.”
“Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.”

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