"The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go."

-- Bill Joy

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“My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'”
“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.”
“In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.”
“Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (1985). “Under the Volcano”
“For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.”
“Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.”
“This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasnâ€™t just a season or a time but a whole world Iâ€™d forgotten. Iâ€™d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.”
“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”

Source : 'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12

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