"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."

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"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."

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"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."

Stephen Colbert, American Comedian

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"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

Jhonen Vasquez, American Cartoonist

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"That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked."

Bill Cosby, American Comedian

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"I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary."

Chris Bailey, Australian Musician

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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Day, Key, Night

"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."

Michael Graves, American Architect

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"The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it."

Robert Coover, American Author

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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Day, Land, May

"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath."

Ville Valo, Finnish Musician

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."

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"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress."

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"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."

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"When in doubt, use brute force."

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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."

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"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."

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"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."

"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

"That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked."

"I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary."

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."

"The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it."

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath."

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

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"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."

"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."

"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."

"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."

"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress."

"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."

"When in doubt, use brute force."

"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."

"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."