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“Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".”
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“The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.”
Source : Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”
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“Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”
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“Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow”
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“An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming.”
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“The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.”
Source : "Myths about 'unwinnable' Afghanistan" by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2011.
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“The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.”
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“If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?”
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“It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”
Source : Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor