"There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores."

-- Adam Gopnik

#Attitude Quotes #Party Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.”
“Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.”
“New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.”
“If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?”
“What if not just women, but both men and women, worked smart, more flexible schedules? What if the workplace itself was more fluid than the rigid and narrow ladder to success of the ideal worker? And what if both men and women became responsible for raising children and managing the home, sharing work, love, and play? Could everyone then live whole lives?”

Source : Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.131, A&C Black
“There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important of allâ€”human beings. . . . [An] increase in the price of peoplesâ€™ services is a clear indication that people are becoming more scarce even though there are more of us.”
“Effort is grossly underrated.”
“Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.”

Source : "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 7, 2012.

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