Precomputer Quotes & Sayings

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly. — Anna Quindlen

Life is miraculous and love is the miracle. — Debasish Mridha

I know you think you believe you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is exactly what I meant. — Richard M. Nixon

Hemingway is my favourite writer, I'm just not the hugest fan of his writing. — Atticus

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors ... Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects. — Marshall McLuhan

Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I respect and admire immigrants and their undeniable contributions to America, as we all should. — Jan C. Ting

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater. — Roberta Smith

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation. — Norman Mailer

To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board. — Garry Kasparov

I would tell you about the rest of the night, but i honestly dont remember much about it. It's all a very sad daze. — Stephen Chbosky

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart. — Sam Peckinpah