"You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you."

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Source : "Less Than Three Years: A Policy Revision". itre.cis.upenn.edu. January 04, 2007.

Geoffrey K. Pullum

#Thinking Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy (is) sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.”
“The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night.”
“Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.”
“There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.”

Source : Bruce Schneier (1996). “Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C”, John Wiley & Sons Inc
“You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.”
“Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!”

Source : Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.
“If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.”
“If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.”

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