Switchers Quotes

#1. As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

Douglas Rushkoff

#2. Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
work came out of it.

Joni Mitchell

#3. When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

Arundhati Roy

#4. When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

Alfred Hitchcock

#5. I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide.

Margaret Cho

#6. That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#8. It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

Zac Hanson

#9. The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

Sam Altman

#10. What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.

Will Self

#11. Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

Clive Ponting