Dividida Crisis Quotes & Sayings

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters. — Willard Spiegelman

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father. — Rokia Traore

What frightened me most was, I could no longer believe in my own life as a story. Everyone needs a story, a part to play in order to avoid the realization that life is without significance. How else do any of us survive? It's what makes life bearable, even interesting. When it becomes neither, people say you've lost the plot. Or just lost it. — Amanda Craig

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum. — Padgett Powell

One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase. — Martin Fowler

You work hard because you're smart and you know you can do it, don't let some idiot bully you into being less than you are. — Justin Robinson

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy. — Evan Osnos