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2022-1004

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of

2022-0929

NY (Sunday) Times, Aug 7, ’49, nobody opens, everybody sees, nobody cares, a newspaper not demonstrably stupid yet incorrigibly stodgy.

2022-0909

If this isn’t nice, then what is?

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

2022-0403

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2021-1228

Don’t vomit on your picture, because it is the picture which can vomit on you after you are dead.

2021-0716

I’m guaranteed to rock I make the ladies scream and shout I’m bound to wreck your body and say “turn the party out”

2021-0621

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

2021-0613

Paradise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.

2021-0510

Man alive!

2021-0429

Let the machine do the dirty work.

Brian Kernighan

2021-0423

Again one sees the scramble for security at the cost of freedom. We are all chasing security, countries and individuals alike. But in these unsettled times what guarantees a man security? Certainly not money. No, one’s greatest security is to be loved. Banks fail, love never.

2021-0214

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

2020-0531

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

2020-0427

I’m interested in architecture, but it’s no good thing being an architect if you are interested in architecture. It’s like being a butcher if you are interested in animals.

2020-0423

Beauty is temporary, ugliness lasts forever.

Marina Abramović

2020-0323

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

2020-0317

Lack of focus is why we have a lack of greatness.

2020-0317

It’s not the easiest thing to try and put a smile on a face. But it’s always worth it.

2020-0305

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

2019-1015

Please, could you expel, or, at least, restrain, the comma-maniac, on your editorial staff?

2018-0219

The Americans are very impressionable people; they see what they want to see. I have a lot of respect for them. I am not upset at all that I ended up on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them see him.

Yevgeny Prigozhin

2018-0105

Beauty conforms to the demands of the spirit.

2017-1106

I often can’t tell if people are at peace or just being dull.

Charles Bukowski

2017-0827

Excellence has no sex.

2016-1101

…most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Christopher Wolfgang Alexander

2016-1025

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

2016-0123

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.

2015-0104

You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

Hunter S. Thompson

2014-0530

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

2014-0521

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

2014-0504

In his highest flights, musical and architectural above all, for they are one, man gives the illusion of rivaling the order, the majesty and the splendor of the heavens.

2014-0430

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Albert Einstein

2014-0428

There are no born masters of typography.

2014-0412

How to write a good short story:

2013-1214

Downtown L.A. looks like they started to build Chicago and then gave up…and let it become a sprawling suburb.

2013-1001

If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

2013-0920

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

Frank Lloyd Wright

2013-0905

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

2013-0904

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

2013-0417

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order that is not understood.

2013-0320

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

2013-0116

It was as undesigned as possible.

2013-0109

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Somerset Maugham

2012-1211

Hello, World!

Brian Kernighan

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