#liter

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#found #gardening #i #increasingly #job

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#cannot #does #future #how #illiterate

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. ↗

— Tristan Tzara

#future #guidance #human #imbecility #literature

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding. ↗

— Charles Vest

#between #came #clear #door #eroding

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #drain #else #except #god

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#celebrity #create #edinburgh #happening #highbrow

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#became #been #before #bulk #doing

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#around #down #exercise #figuratively #games