Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. – Author Unknown
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. – Paul Dirac
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. – John Kenneth Galbraith
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. – Ayelet Waldman
