"I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now."

-- Gordon Gould

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Patents Quotes

“People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.”
“I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.”

Source : Charles Willeford (2013). “The Woman Chaser”, p.129, The Overlook Press
“Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?”
“You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.”
“President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.”
“Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.”

Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin
“Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.”
“I see, from my vantage point as the vice-chair of the Legal Services Corporation, a serious crisis going on in this country. Eighty percent of low-income people have no access to the civil justice system, meaning anything but criminal law.”

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