Acidhead Quotes & Sayings

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I. — Steven Sinofsky

Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be. — Kirsty Eagar

Because it was enough for one of those favorites of His Distinguished Highness to issue a thoughtless decree. These young smart alecks see it, and they immediately imagine some fatal result and come running to the rescue. They start trying to mend things, straighten things out, patch things up and untangle them. And so instead of using their energy to build their own vision of the future, instead of trying to put their irresponsible, destructive fantasies into action, our malcontents had to roll up their sleeves and start untangling what the minsters had knotted up. And there's always a lot of work to untangling! So they untangle and untangle, drenched in sweat, wearing their nerves to shreds, running around, patching things up here and there, and in all this rush and overwork, in this whirlwind, their fantasies slowly evaporate from their hot heads. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Awaken my strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life. — George L. Carlson

The world made me cold. You made me water. One day we'll be clouds. — Pleasefindthis

No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity. — Hermann Adler

Here was world of simplicity and certainty no acidhead, no revolutionary anarchist would ever find, a world based on the one and zero of life and death. Minimal, beautiful. The patterns of life and deaths ... — Thomas Pynchon

Unfailing love, endless blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Today, is the beginning of your future
so be as creative as your heart desires in designing your life map. — Leta B.

Fools are tormented by the memory of former evils; wise men have the delight of renewing in grateful remembrance the blessings of the past. We have the power both to obliterate our misfortunes in an almost perpetual forgetfulness and to summon up pleasant and agreeable memories of our successes. But when we fix our mental vision closely on the events of the past, then sorrow or gladness ensues according as these were evil or good. — Epicurus

Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it. — Tom Robbins