"We will soon be living in an era in which we cannot guarantee survivability of any single point. However, we can still design systems in which system destruction requires the enemy to pay the price of destroying n of n stations. If n is made sufficiently large, it can be shown that highly survivable system structures can be built."

-- Paul Baran

#Pay The Price Quotes #Design Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“A man needs a purpose for real health.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”
“While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and is, and has always been no more killing. And when you focus on the no more killing part, spay neuter actually takes a backseat to all those other programs like foster care, and adoptions, and helping people overcome the challenges they face that cause them to surrender their animals.”
“Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.”
“The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.”

Source : "From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Proposition 4, 1971.
“I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before magaÂzines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“One is very weak when one is in love.”
“The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.”

Source : Dick DeVenzio (2006). “Think Like a Champion: A Guide to Championship Performance for Student-Athletes”, p.32, BookPros, LLC
“The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.”

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