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  • The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

  • Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.

  • You have the right to speak your mind.

  • You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

  • If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to get this favor - whether those people are large enterprises, or whether they're small businesses like farmers, or whether they're representatives of any other special group. The only way to prevent that is to force them to engage in competition one with the other.

  • Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

  • People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.

  • Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

  • Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

  • There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.