"Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant."

-- Jerry Pournelle

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“My New Yearâ€™s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle â€” may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)”
“the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.”
“Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.”
“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”

Source : James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.355, Library of America
“I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold them to my classmates for a dime. I studied painting. Originally I was a design and illustration major, but I met this girl. Back then, if you were a designer, you were a real sellout, and she was a real hardcore painter. I knew she would never take me seriously unless I was an art major, so I switched majors to fine arts. Anyway, we're married now. So it worked. How I got to my style? I'm a weird artist in that everything I do looks a little different.”
“I am not who you thik I am,' I say. 'Who are you?' 'I am number Four.”
“It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.”

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