#pro

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook. ↗

— George Seldes

#media #propaganda #truth #propaganda

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#elizabeth-wurtzel #prozac-nation #state

I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level. ↗

— Paul Taylor

#demo #everything #i #i do #know

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. ↗

— William Trogdon

#come #deriving #free #most #night

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#dangerously #death #fate #felt #getting

Proof' is the hallmark of religion. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#peer-review #proof #religion #science #theory

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #tasha-ozera #advice

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ↗

— Alan J. Perlis

#programming #sicp #science

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#promises #immortality