
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.”
New Scientist interview (2004)
Alan Rusbridger "I've seen the future and it's mutual." British Journalism Review, Vol 20 (3), 2009. p. 19-26; Partly cited in: Santo da Cunha, Rodrigo do Espírito, and Rodrigo Martins Aragão. "Clicar, arrastar, girar: o conceito de interatividade em revistas para iPad."
2000s
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.”
New Scientist interview (2004)
Sometimes it would lead back to a previous idea of mine, very often it would lead to something somebody else had done. But the Bakery algorithm just seemed to come out of thin air to me. There was nothing like it that preceded it, so perhaps that's why I'm proudest of it.
As quoted in [Dahlia Malkhi, Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport, https://books.google.com/books?id=z_m2DwAAQBAJ, 16 September 2019, Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 978-1-4503-7273-2, 137]
“When I look back to a recent painting, I can hardly bear th suffering in it.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
'Wrong to ignore' ethnicity of grooming gangs - Javid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46684638, BBC News, 26 December 2018
2018
Trump responding to a question about whether he had a relationship with Vladimir Putin during an interview with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts while visiting Moscow for the Miss Universe competition http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/trump-discusses-putin-in-2013-734124099973 (November 2013)
2010s, 2013
“It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car.
"Most things are”
Source: Along for the Ride
1960's, I never thought of it as much of an ability,' (1968)
“Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/07/tesla-chief-elon-musk-smokes-marijuana-on-live-web-show e-mail to Guardian
Reported in his Tennessean's obituary; quoted in "John Seigenthaler dies at 86" http://www.poynter.org/2014/john-seigenthaler-dies-at-86/258597/ by Andrew Beaujon, poynter.org (11 July 2014)