"I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error."

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John Maeda

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“I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.”
“Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

Source : An Essay on Criticism l. 525 (1711). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Although known in Latin (humanum est errare, it is human to err) and in earlier English versions, this saying is generally quoted in Pope's words." The ODP cites "To offend is humaine, to repent diuine" (Henry Wotton, 1578) and "To erre is humane, to repent is divine" (James Howell, 1659).
“The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.”
“It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.”

Source : Edward Lear, Edward Mendelson, Laura Huliska-Beith (2001). “Edward Lear”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
“But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.”

Source : "Interview with William Labov: Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 11, 2005.
“Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.”
“We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that ... other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places...”

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