"In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious."

-- Bob Blumer

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“Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.”
“I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.”
“True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.”
“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

Source : Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.12, Penguin
“There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.”
“The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.”
“Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.”
“Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.”

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