"Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out."

-- Paul Saffo

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“Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.”

Source : Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada
“The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.”
“The earth is GodÊ¹s golf ball.”
“Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.”
“In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.”
“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”

Source : Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”
“There is no birth of consciousness without pain.”
“I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair? I'm like 'I just made history and people are focused on my hair?' It can be bald or short, it doesn't matter about my hair. Nothing is going to change. I'm going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it.”

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