"Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds."

-- Vinton Cerf

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“I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.”
“I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't mine. I work hard at grounding the world as much as possible in the world we do recognize.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.”
“The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of parts can completely express the idea. The idea found it necessary to be presented by several parts. After that, there was a rapid flowering of polyphony.”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
“Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.”

Source : Song: Travelin' Man, Album: Beautiful Loser, 1975
“Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.”
“[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.”
“I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.”

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