"Once you know a thing you canâ€™t ever unknow it."

-- Carol Rifka Brunt

“I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.”
“Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.”
“Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.”
“Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.”
“It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.”
“If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.”
“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
“If it's important you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ryan Blair from Apr 14, 2013

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