#tru

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#gertrude stein #happen #making #masterly #nothing

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#demand #different #distinctly #film #get

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#completely #depression #enormous #go #i

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#cyberspace #depend #earnings #format #get

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. ↗

— Jo Brand

#female #male #more #social #society

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university. ↗

— Adam Faith

#blue #chip #come #dream #heading

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't. ↗

— Marianne Faithfull

#hard #i #just #know #never

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. ↗

— Richard Branson

#being #business #essentials #focusing #ideas

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#attitudes #blocs #center #even #form

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. ↗

— Tim Bray

#better #community #cost #deploy #developers