#bse

During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going. ↗

— James W. Black

#behalf #constantly #controversial #director #doubt

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that. ↗

— Lewis Black

#allows #crap #daily #golf #i

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. ↗

— Mos Def

#followers #freaks #me #obsessive #out

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#consciousness #content #course #effects #hence

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini. ↗

— David Blaine

#houdini #i #i always #kid #obsessed

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. ↗

— David Blaine

#i #idea #isolation #obsessed

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#divorce #divorces #duties #each #help

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

#claims #forever #hardest #his #image

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#fact #obsession #other #parts #sex

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bugs #never #presence #program #show