"How to become a Hacker", reprinted in an appendix to The Cathedral and the Bazaar (2001), p. 196
“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
“Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?”
Source: Last Sacrifice
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Songfacts interview (2007)
Context: The best part of being a songwriter — beyond being able to make a living at it — is what I call the "heart payment" of a song. That's when somebody comes up after a concert and says, "My mom was a single mom, and 'You And Me Against The World' was a really important song to us." Or "We got married to 'We've Only Just Begun'" or 'Evergreen.' Or "'I Won't Last A Day Without You' got me through some hard times.'" That's heart payment for a songwriter.
22 August 1875.
The Walk With God (1919)
Context: There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them.
“I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.”
When asked what she did with her first royalty check
Epstein, Daniel (2004). "The White Stripes - Coffee and Cigarettes" http://suicidegirls.com/words/White+Stripes+for+Coffee+and+Cigarettes/ SuicideGirls.com (accessed June 6, 2006)
