
“Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.”
Source: Out Of The Crisis (1982), p. 11
in all caps
"How Authors Get Paid, part 2", Monster Hunter Nation http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/06/25/how-authors-get-paid-part-2/, 2015-06-15
“Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.”
Source: Out Of The Crisis (1982), p. 11
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
Free Culture (2004)
Context: A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. Like Stallman's arguments for free software, an argument for free culture stumbles on a confusion that is hard to avoid, and even harder to understand. A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control. A free culture, like a free market, is filled with property. It is filled with rules of property and contract that get enforced by the state. But just as a free market is perverted if its property becomes feudal, so too can a free culture be queered by extremism in the property rights that define it. That is what I fear about our culture today. It is against that extremism that this book is written.
Source: " Panpsychism again? https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/11/19/panpsychism-again/" November 19, 2021
On talent shows such as American Idol and The Voice
Chicago Tribune interview (March 2013)
“Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head”
Variant: Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
“Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.”
Source: Shadowfever
Because you're one of my writers!
2009-04-03 broadcast
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014)
“Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.”
Linda
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Context: I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.