#steve

Walter Issacson biographer of Steve Jobs: I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden, one day, and he started talking about God. He [Jobs] said, “ Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50/50, maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more, and I find myself believing a bit more, maybe it’s because I want to believe in an afterlife, that when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated, somehow it lives on.” Then he paused for a second and said, “Yea, but sometimes, I think it’s just like an On-Off switch. Click. And you’re gone.” And then he paused again and said, “ And that’s why I don’t like putting On-Off switches on Apple devices.” Joy to the WORLD! There IS an after-life! ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#apple #god #steve-jobs #life

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#wallace-stevens #weather #religion

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#poetry #religion #wallace-stevens #weather #religion

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#malazan #of-the-moon #steven-erikson #death

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. ↗

— Travis Barker

#descendants #good #really #stevenson #too

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#antiwar #because #community #convicted #forbidden

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#galileo #him #instinctual #jobs #life

I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them. ↗

— Drew Carey

#case #else #ever #get #got

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #been #best #big #feel