"How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

-- Gian-Carlo Rota

“Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.”
“all truly great art is propaganda ...”
“I never really cared about what I looked like.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.”
“I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.”
“If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.”

Source : "A Mission Gone Wrong" by Mattathias Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. January 06, 2014.
“Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.”

Source : Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" by the United States Congress, (p. 157), 1960.
“Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.”

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