"There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were."

-- David Foster Wallace

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“The actors feel very free. The actor, he doesn't need to think about where the camera is, he just has to focus on what he's doing and forget the camera. The camera is never in the perfect position, and I think this is what keeps this feeling of reality. The frame is not perfect.”
“The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's wasting money and in this economic climate you just can't afford to do that.”
“The beet must be uprooted.”
“I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.”
“I know there isn't no beastâ€”not with claws and all that, I meanâ€”but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unlessâ€”" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.”
“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”

Source : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.22, Addison-Wesley
“A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.”
“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”

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