"But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagarâ€”or Graff, if it was himâ€”launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important theyâ€™d risk a shuttle and itâ€™s crew just to catch me? I find that quiteâ€¦ flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Winning Quotes #Naughty Quotes #Risk Quotes

“While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”
“Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.”
“While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.”
“I can relate to girls with self esteem issues because growing up in this industry there is the side of you that is obsessed with perfection. You want to please everyone because if you don't, you won't get the job. There is always someone prettier, smarter, or a better actor that you. You start to nit-pick everything. That perfectionism kicks in and it can take over your life if you let it. You have to get comfortable with yourself. Then, if you get the job, it is an added bonus.”
“When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.”
“Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.”
“Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.”

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