Eric S. Raymond Quotes

Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners?

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• For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Taken
  • Secret
  • Information

• Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Past
  • Islam
  • Percent

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Brother

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Paint

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Alone
  • Government
  • Progress

• You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Never
  • Criticism
  • Salt

• Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

  

  Wale
  • Great
  • Art
  • Rapper

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Looking

• Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

  

  Jane Levy
  • Hope
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sun

• I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!

  

  Hillary Clinton

• She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

  

  Alice Munro
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Good
  • War

• Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners?

  

  Eric S. Raymond
  • Life
  • Business
  • Control