"...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative..."

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Source : "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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“All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.”
“The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.”

Source : "Life, Liberty and Property". www.wnd.com. May 15, 2009.
“Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.”
“Know what you want to do - then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.”
“Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.”
“Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.”
“Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We donâ€™t value architecture, we donâ€™t take it seriously, we donâ€™t want to pay for it and the architect isnâ€™t trusted.”
“Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.”

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