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It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.


Kim Stanley Robinson


#insomnia #restlessness #sadness #sleep #dreams

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.


La Monte Young


#aspects #been #concept #form #i

You tell me you love me, but I’m not sure you know what love is, or how fast it flies, or how much it resembles a UFO, or what kind of weapon you’d use to shoot it down.


Jarod Kintz


#aliens #extra-terrestrial #flies #fly #flying

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.


Don Marquis


#anyone #enough #get #interesting #live

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.


Julian Barnes


#history #life #meaning #memory #philosophy

W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.


Witold Gombrowicz


#green-forest #middle-age-crisis #age

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.


Clyde Tombaugh


#engineer #engines #father #guess #i

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.


Linus Torvalds


#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.


Robert Towne


#almost #develop #dialogue #drawn #ear

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.


Frederick W. Smith


#concept #delivery #earn #feasible #fred






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