Eric S. Raymond Quotes
Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?
Eric S. Raymond
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. Jacobs
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney
We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
Zara Larsson
No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
Babasaheb
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
Vince Gilligan
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
Lance Loud
I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
K. A. Applegate
Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
Yehuda Berg
When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.
Natalie Cole
I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.
Anderson East
He reached across and fingered the pendant; I felt it move against my skin. "Willow, look," He said. "We haven't talked much about what might happen, but...you know that I always want to be with you, right? I mean--no matter what." And I had known it; I felt it every time he held me--but even so, actually hearing the words made my heart catch. "I want that, too," I said. "Always, Alex.
L.A. Weatherly
I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.
Matthew Desmond
Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.
Stephen Curry
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
William Hurt
Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?
Eric S. Raymond
