Bretty always says....
Monday, November 24, 2008
On intellectual property...
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
-Howard Aiken
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
On backtalk...
If you wanted the last word you shouldn't have moved east.
- John Dick
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
On complexity...
For every complex problem there is a simple solution - and it is wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Saturday, November 01, 2008
On one's place...
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
- Norman Mailer
On spilling the beans
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
- Norman Mailer
On testing limits...
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
- Norman Mailer
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