"I'm obsessively detail-oriented."

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Donald Knuth

#Details Quotes

“What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?â€. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?”

Source : Brian D. McLaren (2007). “The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?”
“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”
“Surely there could not be any doctrine more strongly expressed in the scriptures than the Lordâ€™s unchanging commandments and their connection to our happiness and well-being as individuals, as families, and as a society.”
“I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
“-You know-- Eddis hesitated, not sure how far to push the Attolian Queen. -Go on. Attolia inclined her head. -I was going to say that you look like a polecat when you smile like that. -Do I? Attolia still smiled. -You look a little vulpine yourself. The two queens sat for a moment in happy agreement.”
“What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.”

Source : "'Eureka moments' and other myths about tech innovation" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2010.

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