"When I was your age, we didnâ€™t have the Internet in our pants. We didnâ€™t even have the Internet not in our pants. Thatâ€™s how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didnâ€™t have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internetâ€¦Not only can you not plan the impact youâ€™re going to have, you often wonâ€™t recognize it when youâ€™re having itâ€¦"

Source : Dick Costolo's Commencement Address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, www.c-span.org. May 4, 2013.

Dick Costolo

#Impact Quotes #Talking Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.”

Source : Helen Vendler (1988). “The Music of what Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics”, Harvard University Press
“A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.”
“The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.”
“We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic, like we were part of some story being told. My mom would have this woman come to our house and take photos of us. She did a photo book of us as well when I was one. I still have it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods thereâ€™s only death”
“Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.”

Source : Harry Partch (2009). “Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments”, p.6, Da Capo Press
“Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge , as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.”

Source : "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.
“The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.”

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