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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. ↗

— John Perkins

#culture #day #detector #found #immediately

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#everything #fiction #history #i #mathematics

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#early #hard #i #learned #me

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country. ↗

— Richard Perle

#before #country #curtail #deny #deprive

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. ↗

— Richard Perle

#children #clever #diplomacy #embrace #entirely

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington. ↗

— Richard Perle

#choose #european #european governments #force #governments

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". ↗

— Alan Perlis

#computing #definition #frustration #into #living

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 Perlis

#anything #bubble #discarded #else #like

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#lisp #nests #parentheses #pens #programmer

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#blue #goes #how #i #i do