"When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart."

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Source : William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.183, Penguin

William Gibson

#Engineering Quotes #Design Quotes #Want Quotes

“The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.”
“Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.”
“Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.”
“There are some who speak one moment before they think”
“Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.”

Source : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”
“I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like I was a man. Before that point for some reason, I always felt I was a boy (laughter). In fact, they called me the baby on the ship 'cause I was the youngest guy on the ship. But I always felt that way.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
“Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.”
“If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good, and sometimes you're like, 'That one was just sorta there.'”

Source : "Jukebox Jury: Feist, ?uestlove, SNL’s Bobby Moynihan". Interview with David Marchese, www.spin.com. December 22, 2011.

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