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- I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004
- Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), from his report to the King of France on Animal Magnetism, 1784
- Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!
- William McDonough, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006
- Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing it's almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. You're not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless let's keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.
- Josh Tenenbaum, quoted in "The Power of Coincidence," Psychology Today, July 2004
- I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), A Man without a Country
- When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Amores
- To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
- Jacques Bossuet (1627 - 1704), French anthology "Et Toi Mon Coeur Pourquoi Bats-tu"
- When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question:"Is this person in between me and what do I want to do?" If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you're in charge, don't hire the people who were jerky to you.
- Tina Fey, Bossypants, 2011
- It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance.
- Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, 2011
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