Adam Roberts book Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 14, “Confinement” (p. 131)
Adam Roberts book Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 14, “Confinement” (p. 131)
“For you to love something, you must have seen and heard it for a long time, you idiots.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) French painter and writer
Original: (fr) Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots.
Source: Sign for a Dada festival (March 1920)
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury book Ray Bradbury
As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93<br>Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.<br>As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000) <br class="br">Context: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ward Cunningham (1949) American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), To Plan or Not To Plan
Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 51, note 60
Ann M. Martin (1955) American writer of children's literature
Source: Hello, Mallory
“You don't have to war with a woman, you just get lost. Better to make love.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Non ti conviene fare la guerra con una donna, ci perdi e basta. Meglio farci l'amore.
Source: prevale.net
“… because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith