Xpectro

“This is a book in favor of doing—self-directed, purposeful, meaningful life and work—and against "education"—learning cut off from active life and done under pressure of bribe or threat, greed and fear.”
― John Holt, Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better

“A Mercedes or a BMW can’t make full use of its lustre, as it busily swerves to avoid the very convex buses along very concave roads. The existence of good roads would depend upon another type of wealth. A wealth that might serve the city.”
― Mia Couto, Pensativities: Selected Essays

“The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it’s the cash that has him.”
― Mia Couto, Pensativities: Selected Essays

“How did I begin investigating the dubious origins of familiar quotations? I will tell you: In the 1990s I developed an enthusiasm for electronic books.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations