#oft

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#applications #beauty #code #course #cross-platform

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#almost #anything #become #effort #hard

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#catastrophe #catastrophes #domain #embodied #emergence

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#become #biggest #biggest problem #friends #involved

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#been #body #energy #human #human nature

It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden. ↗

— Saku Koivu

#always #back #beat #better #country

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often. ↗

— Saku Koivu

#happen #kind #montreal #often #people

American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned. ↗

— Michael Kors

#american women #clothes #fall #i #into

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages. ↗

— David Korten

#even #experience #faster #housing #increased

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#cause #force #often #power #supported