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Arthur had discovered that horses make bad sailors.
“A VERY GOOD LIFE LIVED INDEED, ESMERELDA. “Thank you,” said Granny. “I did my best.”
― The Shepherd's Crown
― The Shepherd's Crown
“There is a critical difference (Ryan observes) between saying, “I’m giving you this reward because I recognize the value of your work”, and “You’re getting this reward because you’ve lived up to my standards.” The first does not demotivate; the second does.”
― The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
― The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“Make no mistake: We are being tested. Without a vibrant, fearless free press, our great American experiment may fail.”
― What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
― What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
“Your father’s not allowed to have fun. He has to sit in boring meetings all day.” “Poor Daddy,”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“What I couldn’t fully appreciate yet was just how malleable this technology would prove to be; how quickly it would be absorbed by commercial interests and wielded by entrenched powers; how readily it could be used not to unify people but to distract or divide them; and how one day many of the same tools that had put me in the White House would be deployed in opposition to everything I stood for.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
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