"In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse."

-- Harold Ross

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“Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.”
“If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.”

Source : "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.
“The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.”
“A lot can happen [ because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.”
“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”
“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.”
“Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.”
“If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.”

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