"I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve."

-- James L. Barksdale

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.”
“I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.”

Source : Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. November 29, 2005.
“Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.”

Source : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
“The life you make is the life you will have. Your decisions are your blueprint.”
“Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.”
“I think every year you have something to prove.”
“I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.”
“I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.”

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