Daily Quotation

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business. ​

Steve Jobs ​

 

We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content ... What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet — and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock — open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it — puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.

• As quoted in "Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview" in Rolling Stone (3 December 2003)

 

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
- Niels Bohr

 

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Elizabeth Bowen

 

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.


Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

 

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, bridges, street signs, tree clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery--celebrate it it if you feel like it."

- Jim Jarmusch​

 

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."

Carl Jung was right sometimes.

 

Hah!

 

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
--- Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China)

inspired by Plan9's Avatar

 

I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
- Jack Nicholson

 

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." ~ Helen Keller​