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While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.
This is not mathematics, it is theology.(On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)
Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!"Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?"-Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in ...
Success is directly proportional to satisfaction and vice - versa.
In the United States, the more common way to initiate change has been to have consultants come in who "borrow your watch to tell you ...
There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that ...
The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage.
Every end justifies the means? - No! The end justifies all the means? - No! Every end justifies all the means? - No, never!" - ...
Criminal justice is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failurethe failure of a group ...
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains ...
All the technologies mentioned and described in this book either existed at the time of its writing or were being developed in a clandestine way.
Festivals become a family because you start seeing the same people.
Blank eyes stared from sunken sockets as if the divine force, the daimon, had been extinguished like a lamp, replaced by a weariness beyond description, ...
Life Kicks :( ....to your goals!
The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.
Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities ...
You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't ...
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.
By the time you figure out how the world really works, you've already lost about everything you'd hope to keep
Not surprisingly, nondemocratic regimes by their nature are built around the restriction of individual freedom.
To Jane Jacob's three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.
During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in ...
I like the imp / in impossibility
Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and ...
Panties?! Now you know you don't wear no damn panties, Sean!" "Chile, you don't know what I got on under here!
It is difficult to deviate from an old line of thought 'just a little'. The radical departure is easier than the subtle deviation." Ludwig Wittgenstein.
You've been robbed. Those times, where did they go? Once so alive but now hidden in a mass grave. And that's where the future ones ...
A caterpillar builds a coffin, a butterfly remembers a cocoon
Being a writer isn't about writing what you want or what you're comfortable with. It's about having a unique awareness and ability to faithfully retell ...
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word ...
Can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what you want because I'm me.
If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.
May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give ...
It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows.
I've heard that even in space;You can hear the scratching of aI-I-I-I love you.
If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.
Life, it's a long road but a short ride.
Merry Christmas me bollocks. The words of the Pogues's 'Fairytale of New York' also came to mind: surrounded by scumbags and maggots, I prayed God ...
Let the story settle inside you. Let it move and twist around until you see what it has to say to you.
If it has a use it isn't art.
If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams.
Falling in Love comes easy,Staying in Love is an Art.
Don't be a jerk.
Yahabae: WA T A R I NObuddha but better: WATARI YES
You always have a choice. Choose to be splendid.
Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla ...