"Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scary."

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Source : Martin Mayer (1968). “All You Know is Facts”

Martin Mayer

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“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”

Source : Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
“I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.”

Source : "Actor Anne Bancroft dies at 73". www.abc.net.au. June 08, 2005.
“The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.”
“I do have friends, but they don't know me, only someone I've created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. I keep the melted me bottled up inside. Where no one can touch her, until, unbidden, she comes pouring out.”
“Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.”
“Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.”
“If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.”

Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press
“Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.”

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