Datoria Quotes & Sayings

Like the librarians of Babel in Borges's story, who are looking for the book that will provide them with the key to all the others, we oscillate between the illusion of perfection and the vertigo of the unattainable. In the name of completeness, we would like to believe that a unique order exists that would enable us to accede in knowledge all in one go; in the name of the unattainable, we would like to think that order and disorder are in fact the same word, denoting pure chance.
It's possible also that both are decoys, illusions intended to disguise the erosion of both books and systems. It is no bad thing in any case that between the two our bookshelves should serve from time to time as joggers of the memory, as cat-rests and as lumber-rooms. — Georges Perec

When a person cares for another, he wants to know everything about her all at once. — Heather W. Petty

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

I am choking in the suffocating foul air of the harbor. I want to hoist my sails in the open sea, even though a tempest may be blowing. Furled sails are always dirty. Those who would deride me are so many furled sails. They can do nothing. — Osamu Dazai

The code that most prisoners live by is an extension of the masculine roles they were taught growing up, how they were conditioned about what it means to be a man: you've got to be strong, you've got to be tough, you've got to be in charge. — James Fox

You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it. — Jane Espenson

Sometimes life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to — Brent Weeks

On a specific day marked on the earth's calendar, and in a specific place on the earth's map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love. — Billy Graham

I am certain of nothing but the truth of imagination. — Debasish Mridha