Quotes for All
By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe…. He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of … Read more
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. Edmund Blunden
There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty – in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky … Read more
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market E. F. Schumacher
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government’s power to tax. Frank Chodorov
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government’s power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment. Frank Chodorov
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain … Read more
I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed … Read more
Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare – we hired our friends who were really passionate about the stuff they were building. We have a superstar team not just because their resumes are so strong, but because they’ve been passionate, thinking about and tinkering … Read more
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail’s pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can’t … Read more