Functionally Obsolete Quotes

#1. Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

Ingo Molnar

#2. The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

Don Winslow

#3. The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

Marianne Faithfull

#4. Our souls are transitory; one single life is fleeting. Based on some children's accounts, not all souls are immediately reincarnated. Sometimes the consciousness can choose rebirth. What a lovely thought to look upon your child and realize that he entrusted you to raise him. What a gift.

Shelbi Wescott

#5. I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

Will Ferrell

#6. I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

Ellen Page

#7. Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Socrates

#8. The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. "My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain ... "

Charles Dickens

#10. If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

C.J. Anderson

#12. The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

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