“Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.”

— Jean Sibelius

Cecil Gray Sibelius: The Symphonies (London: Oxford University Press, 1935) p. 56.
Of his Symphony No. 6 (1923).

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Finnish composer of the late Romantic period 1865–1957

Neville Cardus (1888–1975) English writer

Manchester Guardian (1958)

“Publicity is usually explained and justified as a competitive medium which ultimately benefits the public (the consumer) and the most efficient manufacturers - and thus the national economy. It is closely related to certain ideas about freedom: freedom of choice for the purchaser: freedom of enterprise for the manufacturer. The great hoardings and the publicity neons of the cities of capitalism are the immediate visible sign of "The Free World." For many in Eastern Europe such images in the West sum up what they in the East lack. Publicity, it is thought, offers a free choice.”

John Berger book Ways of Seeing

Source: Ways of Seeing (1972), p. 130

“For the same reasons a music composer writes its own symphony, whereas others already did the same things, but differently.”

Benoît Minisini (1973) French computer programmer

Answering why he wrote an independent scripting language for Gambas. Quoted from FOSDEM interview, " http://www.madeasy.de/7/benoit.htm http://www.madeasy.de/7/benoit.htm" Mad Easy (2005-02-14)

“The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.”

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly (1802–1874) English Whig politician and judge

Walker v. Ware, Hadham, &c. Rail. Co. (1866), 12 Jur. (N. S.) 18.

“It is a long time now since I knew that acute moment of bliss that comes from putting parched lips to a cup of cold water. The springs are still there to be enjoyed - all one needs is the original thirst.”

Laurie Lee (1914–1997) British writer

Appetite, p. 66.
I Can't Stay Long (1975)

“"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business, for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 647

“This was no playhouse but a house in earnest.
Your destination and your destiny's
A brook that was the water of the house,
Cold as a spring as yet so near its source,
Too lofty and original to rage.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Directive (1947)
Context: p>This was no playhouse but a house in earnest.
Your destination and your destiny's
A brook that was the water of the house,
Cold as a spring as yet so near its source,
Too lofty and original to rage.(We know the valley streams that when aroused
Will leave their tatters hung on barb and thorn.)</p