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
Quotes to Explore
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
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
Laura Prepon
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni
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
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Otto Weininger
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
Karen Traviss