#des

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#because #both #cannot #choose #code

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#building #cases #cross #desktop #i

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#ask #being #good #good thing #hard

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#been #decades #headlines #initiative #lost

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#both #both sides #common #seem #share

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#deserve #honor #i #i am #i do

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. ↗