"The important thing about security systems isnâ€™t how they work, itâ€™s how they fail."

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Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.127, Macmillan

Cory Doctorow

#Important Quotes #Failing Quotes #Working It Quotes

“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
“My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.”
“The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.”
“Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.”
“I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...”

Source : "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.
“It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.”
“The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.”

Source : Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America, July 2003.

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