"My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure."

-- Kevin Mitnick

#Adventure Quotes #Goal Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.”
“The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.”

Source : "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.
“As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.”
“FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH”
“It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.”
“The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.”

Source : "Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham - review" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2011.
“A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.”

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