"Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error."

-- Robert Burchfield

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“I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.”
“I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.”
“America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.”
“Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.”
“I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
“Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.”
“Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.”
“As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.”

Source : "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki". Book by Saburō Shiroyama, p. 296, 1977.

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