"Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody."

-- Vilfredo Pareto

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“Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was becoming provincial in that way that only New Yorkers are. My points of reference were really insular. They were insular in that fantastic New York way, but they didn't go much beyond that. I didn't have any sense of class and geography, because the economy of New York is so specific. So I definitely had access and exposure to a huge variety of people that I wouldn't have had if I'd stayed in New York - much more so in Nebraska even than in L.A.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.”
“The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.”

Source : "A Push for Surveillance Software". Interview with John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 1994.
“Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.”
“Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.”
“You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.”
“Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.”

Source : "Know It All" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.

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