"I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade - and I was one of those people who would watch a show and say, "Oh, that could never happen.""

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Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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“I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.”
“While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.”
“I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.”
“I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.”
“I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.”
“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”
“What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?”
“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”

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