Exhalation
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“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,”
“when you think of the company as a product, you ask different questions: Do people who work here know how to use the company? Is it simple? Complex? Is it obvious how it works? What’s fast about it? What’s slow about it? Are there bugs? What’s broken that we can fix quickly and what’s going to take a long time?”
― It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
― It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
“Me preguntó si me había llevado ya a la cama a la traductora (no sabía nada concreto sobre Julia, solamente que había alguien, una mujer, conmigo; pero creía que se trataba del deber obvio de cualquier buen italiano en viaje de trabajo)…”
― Mar Bianco
― Mar Bianco
“Ask yourself, if all men must grub in the dirt for food, how shall any man lift his eyes to contemplate the stars? If each of us must break his back to build a hovel, who shall raise the temples to glorify the gods? For some men to be great, others must be enslaved.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“The hand’s dexterity is the physical manifestation of the mind’s ingenuity,”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
“It's funny how much of the miseries of this world are caused by short people –they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on than the tall ones.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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