"Compared to 1999...we cannot quite declare victory, but we can declare progress."

-- Jakob Nielsen

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“Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are always the goods of the spiritual journey, and they are guided by divine wisdom, which then shapes compassion in the concrete situations of our existence.”

Source : Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.125, New World Library
“Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.”
“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.”

Source : "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.
“Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst!”
“Unfortunately, it's not that it's not impossible for us to develop Final Fantasy 7 for mobile. It's that currently, space will be an issue. Phones won't be able to contain the space it takes. It's over a gigabyte. People are probably going to have to wait a few years.”

Source : "Final Fantasy 7 On Mobile Won't Happen For Years" By Luke Karmali, www.ign.com. October 15, 2013.
“Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.”

Source : Dziga Vertov (1984). “Kino-eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov”, p.88, Univ of California Press
“My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.”
“Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.”

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