"Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does."

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Source : "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, en.wikiquote.org.

Mark Pesce

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“I'm the fourth best James Bond.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich.”

Source : "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Book by William L. Shirer, 1960.
“The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.”
“Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.”

Source : Interview with Ed Cumming, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 10, 2012.
“Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.”
“Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.”

Source : 1987 Making It Happen: Reflections on Leadership.
“A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.”
“I need to do SOMETHING to make ME feel better about ME.”

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