#ought

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#control #cryptography #did #files #i

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#degrades #love #pleasure #religion #seeker

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you. ↗

— Rita Dove

#anything #because #dealing #else #going

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#am #being #control #day #full

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #myself #nature #never #sort

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#dancing #feeling #head #hit #i

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#journalist #novelist #thought #wanted

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern. ↗