"Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Summer Quotes #Math Quotes #Winter Quotes

“A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.”

Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan
“If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2008). “Sacrifice: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.135, Del Rey
“The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.”
“Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.”
“Behind me are a hard 2 weeks of training, so I feel a little bit tired right now, but my goal for the race in Cardiff and Pau remains the same as in all races. I want to do well and have good runs and enjoy racing. The results come by itself when I do that.”
“Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.”
“The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.”
“if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.”

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