Diary, 9 Nov 1947
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Post, comp.os.linux.development.system newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-07-05, Torvalds, Linus, 2016-05-25 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.development.system/EG3iv5IcC3Y/6d_v3HZUZLYJ, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) Irish writer
D. H. Lawrence, Introduction to These Paintings (1929); cited from James Boulton (ed.) Late Essays and Articles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) pp. 192-3.
Criticism
“One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
I.59
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
Quoted in Oskar von Riesemann (trans. Dolly Rutherford) Rachmaninoff's Recollections (New York: Macmillan, 1934) p. 155.
“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
Wallace Stevens book Harmonium
"The Snow Man"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: p>One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitterOf the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare placeFor the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.</p
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
On Tranquility of the Mind
Arulselvam Rayappan (1960) Indian prelate
Source: Responsible Servants https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/responsible-servants-arulselvam-rayappan-sermon-on-parable-general-77029 (7 March 2005)
