Adrienne

“Remember that he who conquers himself is greater than the one who conquers a city.”
― Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

“Like the big collaborative projects of the internet, such as Wikipedia and Firefox, like the decentralized network of websites and machines that make up the internet itself, language is a network, a web. Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms, language is humanity's most spectacular open source project.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists