Chris DiBona Quotes
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.
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The Supreme Court raises the question, what kind of country will we be? The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful, wealthy.
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You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
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We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.
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If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
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I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.
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The editors have told Flemming Rose to take a holiday because no one can understand the kind of pressure he has been under.
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Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.
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I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.
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Without 'Countdown,' I'd probably still be a data analyst in London.
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Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.
