#rivers

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#device #drivers #empathy #humans #interface

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no. ↗

— George Ryan

#hell #i #illegally #involved #licenses

There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind. ↗

— David James Duncan

#stories #beauty

A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t put words to it. All he knew was, neither of them had changed their minds and neither of them could find anything more to say. (229) ↗

— David Wroblewski

#resignation #rivers #struggle #willfullness #change

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#curse #define #drivers #each #happens

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. ↗

— Li Peng

#chinese #close #enjoyed #exchanges #friendly

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. ↗

— Sally Ride

#day #dump #during #form #hurricanes

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#backwards #born #contented #expect #free

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#better job #drivers #educating #job #must

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. ↗