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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. ↗

— Robert Ballard

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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#forever #god #god bless #may #remain

So, whenever you find yourself putting forth great effort without success, you're trying to force something that won't fit under the circumstances. That's a destructive waste of time. And if that isn't enough to keep in mind, your techniques must always be allowed to evolve and change, in relationships, in life, in science, in society. Otherwise you stagnate, and you won't get anywhere in the long run... You know what the philosopher Aldous Huxley said? He said 'Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ↗

— Tony Vigorito

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I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

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Accessible design is good design. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

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I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

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I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

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