"The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ***** enough."

-- Witold Gombrowicz

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“Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.”

Source : "Fictional character: Danny". "Brassed Off", www.imdb.com. 1996.
“I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.”
“It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.”
“I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake....”
“I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not an action director. I'm sure that other guys could do it a lot better. I couldn't put my heart into it.”
“Letâ€™s hope sheâ€™s like the others, who look only at the surface. Letâ€™s hope sheâ€™d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.”
“I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.”

Source : "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". Textbook by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson, 2nd edition, 1996.
“For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.”

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