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— Haruki Murakami (Trans. Jay Rubin), Norwegian Wood. 199. ¶“How many Sundays—how many hundreds of Sundays like this—lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn’t wind my spring.”
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— Mark Patinkin, I'll Miss Having a News Paper In My Hands ¶“In a time of distractibility, a paper also keeps you focused. When we go online, we may start with a news story, but then go chaotically from e-mail to stocks to Google to shopping, and then back to news. But sit with a newspaper, and you no longer are sidetracked. You’re focused on just the day’s events. There’s no “you have mail” chime to interrupt you. It’s a rare sane moment in the day.”
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— Patton Oswalt, 2008 Broad Run High School Commencement Speech ¶“Reputation, Posterity and Cool are traps. They’ll drain the life from your life. Reputation, Posterity and Cool = Fear.”
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— Alan Kay, http://www.wiresong.ca/ ¶“Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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— Rys, Avi Bryant: Ruby IS-A Smalltalk | Lambda the Ultimate ¶“The C++ folks believed you could type everything the one true correct way without painting yourself into a corner.”
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— Merlin Mann, Twitter ¶“Until your tattoo ink and ironic hats can be shipped via fixie, I wouldn’t get *too* smug about gas prices.”
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— TJ, A Twiddiots Guide to the Bible (via Merlin Mann) ¶“Please ignore the book of Revelation entirely, any movie made about it, or anyone you see on television who is talking about it.”
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— Tim Burners-Lee, A 'more revolutionary' Web - International Herald Tribune ¶“I think maybe when you’ve got an overlay of scalable vector graphics - everything rippling and folding and looking misty - on Web 2.0 and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you’ll have access to an unbelievable data resource.”