#magic

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple #benefactor #blink #decided #did

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#banks #bay #bay area #become #food

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#becoming #bittersweet #flowed #had #happiness

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#learn #magic #poverty #pretty #solution

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#believe #cars #cling #convictions #drive

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#book #closely #cube #dark #even

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#hopelessness #magic #hope

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#glittering-eyes #hidden #magic #secrets #unlikely-places

If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#magick #equality

The magic of creation has always fascinated me. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#creation #fascinated #magic #me