#we

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#bunch #businesses #everybody #fair #guys

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#answer #ask #enough #god #i

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#become #biology #century #part #physics

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#before #change #culinary #culinary school #decision

Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies. ↗

— Paz Vega

#amazing #beautiful #big #ceremonies #cocktails

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ↗

— Alice Walker

#any #common #common way #give #most

If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#another #beginning #clear #could #done

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#administration #again #going #here #i

There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#because #bit #doing #example #focusing

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#bittersweet #lie #self-deception #beauty