"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

“I can't walk down the streets. It's very difficult. I can't go to the mall. I have to go to hotels just to have a meal. Everybody wants to say hi and say thank you and congratulate me, so it's very difficult.”

“It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.”

“Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.”

Source : "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

“We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it”

“I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.”

“I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?”

Source : "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.

“Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime”

“Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.”

Source : Norbert Elias (1982). “The history of manners”, Random House Inc