Stallman Artist Quotes

#1. Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

Dave Matthews Band

#3. The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

Confucius

#4. If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

Francis Bacon

#5. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

#6. I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.

Hasso Plattner

#7. Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

Nick Hanauer

#8. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring.

J.R.R. Tolkien