"You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used for? Itâ€™s being used to throw angry birds at pigs; itâ€™s being used to send pictures of your cat to people halfway around the world; itâ€™s being used to check in as the virtual mayor of a virtual nowhere while youâ€™re riding a subway from the nineteenth century."

-- Peter Thiel

#Cat Quotes #Pigs Quotes #Iphone Quotes

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg (2017). “The Little Virtues: Essays”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
“I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.”
“We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.”
“I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.”
“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...”
“I've never wanted to be a cage fighter myself, but I definitely do enjoy the entertainment of it.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears”

Source : Pauline Oliveros (1974). “Sonic meditations”

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