#mentation

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. ↗

— John Cheever

#experimentation #fiction

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. ↗

— David K. Shipler

#ages #cultures #delicate #festival #great

If the years have taught me one thing it's that those who care are always scarce. Those who genuinely care; not the acquaintances, false friends or those with similar aspirations. The few who seek your company, the souls who would plainly step off the world for you. Once you resolve to ignore them, only regret will follow. ↗

— Darrell Drake

#friendship #friendship-and-love #lamentation #love #regret

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#excellent #existing #good #good ideas #had

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#around #break #community #development #first

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#brazil #comes #heritage #i #instrumentation

We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#different #different way #direction #gives #government

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#good #good idea #hard #hard work #idea

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#comes #i #i write #instrumentation #kind

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. ↗

— Mark White

#experience #experimentation #personal #sound #ultimately