“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
Emile Zola book Germinal
Source: Germinal
Radio From Hell (March 20, 2006)
“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
Emile Zola book Germinal
Source: Germinal
Ken Thompson (1943) American computer scientist, creator of the Unix operating system
Thompson on the superiority of <tt>ed</tt> to editors such as today's <tt>vi</tt> or <tt>emacs</tt>, as summarized by Peter Salus in A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison-Wesley, 1994). http://web.archive.org/web/20080103071208/http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~george/history/
Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer
Source: For Darkness Shows the Stars
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Meeting of the "40 Committee" on covert action in Chile (27 June 1970) quoted in The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974); the quotation was censored prior to publication due to legal action by the government. See New York Times (11 September 1974) "Censored Matter in Book About C.I.A. Said to Have Related Chile Activities; Damage Feared" by Seymour Hersh
1970s
Alyson Hannigan (1974) American actress
When asked why she doesn't swallow her saliva very often after being asked if she was sick and she said she wasn't.
“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”
Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American jazz musician, composer and band leader
“You see a lot up there, but don't be scared.Who needs action when you got words?”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)