"In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed."

-- Garry Kasparov

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“You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.”
“I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, null and even thoroughly discouraged. But I never came back in such a frame of mind, and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk.”
“If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.”
“It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.”
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
“On the Facebook side, I think it's a bit of an evolution, in that that company, which has clearly done amazing things, was, I believe, as an outsider looking in, was founded on a culture that was obsessive about the users. And they built a service that is very valuable for users, and that is to be applauded.”
“Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
“So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them.”

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