"Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software."

-- Larry Constantine

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“It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.”

Source : Commencement address at the Romanian Military Academy August 14, 1968. "The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Forty Years Later". Book by M. Mark Stolarik, 2010.
“writing, like living, is lonely work.”

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”
“I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.”

Source : "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.
“This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.”
“One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of control and that we do not know what to do. We have too much information, limited cognitive abilities to think in systemic terms and an unwillingness to appear to be in control and to have solutions for our problems. We are afraid that if we admit to our confusion, we will make our followers and students anxious and disillusioned. We know we must learn how to learn, but we are afraid to admit it.”
“We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them,”
“The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.”
“All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.”

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