"The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't."

-- Greg Louganis

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“I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.”
“Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.”
“I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.”
“Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.”
“I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'”
“I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.”

Source : Raymond Cogniat, Georges Braque, Joanne Greenspun (1980). “Georges Braque”
“SystemC AMS provides a great modeling and simulation framework for integrated heterogeneous systems. The SystemC AMS 2.0 standard brings new capabilities for advanced behavioral modeling (e.g., multi-rate systems) and higher maturity for improved industrial acceptance. We at OFFIS see it as a major stepping stone towards a design methodology for cyber-physical systems. In our research we work on seamlessly integrating extra-functional properties such as power, temperature and aging into SystemC AMS models.”
“I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.”

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