"When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise."

-- Maya Angelou

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Down And Quotes

“Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”
“I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.”
“I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.”
“If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty dress from the thrift store, perhaps the solution is not to cast it aside. If dislocation is a tatty dress, perhaps the only solution is to mend it, scent it, and wear it until everything about it signifies newness, something close to the perpetual promise of a fresh start.”

Source : "Is Dislocation a Permanent State?" by Diriye Osman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.
“And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.”
“Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime and give thanks for it, it will soon be increased. If we resent our position and dwell upon what we lack, that is exactly what we get back.”

Source : Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”
“The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.”

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