"Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place."

-- Gordon Bell

#Ideas Quotes #Disaster Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.”
“To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.”
“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.”

Source : Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”
“I could've had moments when I could've said, "You know what? Let me make another film; this is taking a long time to get distributed." It can be difficult to stay passionate. You have to be that passionate and be prepared for it to get what it deserves. Make sure you have a really good team going in at the beginning and don't have people in your team that aren't there 100%.”
“Iâ€™m a huge South Park fan, loved Avenue Q and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez and Casey Nicholaw. Elder Price is an amazing role and I am so excited to take The Book of Mormon across the country.”
“As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!”
“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.”

Source : Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.27, Vintage
“Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2003). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass”, p.194, Ivan R. Dee

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