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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba6ef82 | A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea. (DUTCH PROVERB) | warning | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | |
| 67dd0fa | Organizations must be designed around the people available; not people fitted into pure-theory organizations. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| b445337 | The opportunity to be creative and inventive in implementation is not significantly diminished by working within a given external specification, and the order of creativity may even be enhanced by that discipline. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 1e5b5fd | And so from a statistical mechanical model, Belady and Lehman arrive for programming-systems at a more general conclusion supported by the experience of all the earth. "Things are always at their best in the beginning," said Pascal. C. S." -- | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 41a5f43 | And so from a statistical mechanical model, Belady and Lehman arrive for programming-systems at a more general conclusion supported by the experience of all the earth. "Things are always at their best in the beginning," said Pascal." | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| f17eb3e | Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that | Roger Zelazny | ||
| a3e5983 | Pinned under the air that grates like a claw Every time I look up to the sky I learn that I am trapped in this world If only that sky would crumble and fall I could fly to anywhere | zombie-powder | Tite Kubo | |
| 699039a | Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse who did professional person-bustling. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| d8fff7c | But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need. * | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| fab5b4f | He stayed carefully away from the profs, he ran the data they gave him without allowing any of it to register in his memory--that's what you have computers for, so you don't have to put stuff in your own memory--and that was all he did. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| bca6a9a | No longer were there "doctors" of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that were unseemly and inappropriate." | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 9ce8435 | A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| fa6d161 | stupid man was the "in charge" position, leaving people who knew what they were doing free to do it, while" | Julie Vedder Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 9d780e0 | Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 99956ba | Judas Rose both articulates and critiques the New World Order that was beginning to develop when Elgin was writing the novel. It also speaks to our new New World Order, in which a patriotic nationalism claiming to support feminist emancipation is activated in the name of a transnational global culture whose economic order is indifferent, at best, to the well-being of women. | Julie Vedder Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 457b18b | It was her favorite cup, emerald-green china with a rim of silver, and sturdy enough to drink from half awake without worrying that she'd crush it, the last unbroken one of a set used for company meals when she was still in Granny School. She despised the cups her mother and grandmother chose to start their days with, delicate white porcelain with the Brightwater Crest on the side, big enough to hold maybe three good swallows, and so frail .. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| e32d4ba | The language we use to describe and operate in the world affects the way we understand the world, our place in it, and our interactions with one another. Changing our language changes our world. This | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 7216166 | Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 225dcfe | There's got to be something you can do with them, or they will literally drive you crazy. Women out of control are a curse--and if you don't put a stop to it, you'll regret it bitterly later on. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 210731d | There was no end to the inventiveness of men when their goal was to prove their mastery. It | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 0c3b6de | They are encumbered with secret pregnancies that never come to term. There are no terms, you don't see. They drag their swollen brains about with them everywhere; hidden in pleats and drapes and cunning pouches; and the unbearable keep kicking, kicking under the dura mater. It is no bloody wonder they have headaches. Hold them to your ear, lumpy as they are, and pale; that roar you hear is the surge of the damned unspeakable being kept back.. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 5f50538 | True, everything they'd done so far had failed. But they had learned things! What had happened to the idea of knowledge for the sake of knowledge? Truth for the sake of truth? | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 57d8886 | there was something so appealing to me about Tiffany's pragmatism. She reminds me of Suzette Haden Elgin's character, Responsible of Brightwater | Bridget McGovern | ||
| b469007 | What's upside down? What's coated in silver? This crucifix is my four leaf clover. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 7667b4b | The darkness was crisp, as though scraped of sight and smell by winter's razor. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| a17a6bc | We ate our liver and spinach while watching the right honorable gentlemen of the British House of Commons yelling at each other about the Iraq invasion on C-SPAN. And it was damned good. It was good because it was liver and spinach with cheese, but mostly it was good because I didn't have to make it. Sometimes I want to beat Eric's head repeatedly against a sharp rock, but other times he knows just the right thing to do to make me forget ab.. | liver married-life offal understanding | Julie Powell | |
| b70571c | My husband cooed as he dug into his plate of delicious flambeed crepes. If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what is. | my-love sexy | Julie Powell | |
| 21b8ad8 | Retired missionaries taught us Arts & Crafts each July at Bible Camp: how to glue the kidney, navy, and pinto bean into mosaics, and how to tool the stenciled butterfly on copper sheets they'd cut for us. At night, after hymns, they'd cut the lights and show us slides: wide-spread trees, studded with corsage; saved women tucking T-shirts into wrap-around batiks; a thatched church whitewashed in the equator's light. Above the hum of the proj.. | Lynn Powell | ||
| cc29c01 | Chris- the one who wrote the halfway creepy thing about missing me so much when I didn't post and thinking I was dead- found it mind-boggling that before the Julie/Julia Project began, I had never eaten an egg. She asked, "How can you have gotten through life without eating a single egg? How is that POSSIBLE???!!!!!" Of course, it wasn't true that I hadn't eaten an egg. I had eaten them in cakes. I had even eaten them scrambled once or tw.. | french-cuisine julie-powell | Julie Powell | |
| eef8572 | A couple of salmon steaks I'd bought for a shocking amount of money at the Turkish grocery near my office sat on the counter, waiting to be broiled and napped in Sauce a la Moutarde, which is a sort of fake (Julia calls it "mock," but let's call a spade a spade, shall we?) hollandaise sauce, with some mustard stirred in for interest. Slumped beside the fish was a bag of slightly wilted Belgian endive, which I was just going to be braising i.. | french-cuisine julie-powell | Julie Powell | |
| 2b18e73 | For nearly a week I neither cooked nor grocery shopped. Instead, all of our various families took Eric and me out for Mexican food, for barbecue, for beignets. We ate cheese biscuits with Rice Krispies, and spiced pecans, and red beans and rice, and gumbo, and all those other things that New Yorkers would turn up their noses at, but New Yorkers don't know everything, do they? This is what Texas, and family, are for. | southern-cuisine texans | Julie Powell | |
| 552f720 | reading was how I got my ya-yas out. | Julie Powell | ||
| 9e7e798 | Oggigiorno, chiunque disponga di uno scalcinato laptop e di un accesso a Internet puo fare sentire il proprio grido barbarico, qualunque sia il suo motore propulsore. Ma, sorpresa!, per ogni persona che ha qualcosa da dire sembra ci sia almeno qualcun altro disposto ad ascoltare. E, in qualche caso, non si tratta nemmeno di parenti. | Julie Powell | ||
| e0ff2db | The thing I keep learning about endings is that they aren't a long time coming, and that they don't sneak up on you either, because endings just don't happen. | Julie Powell | ||
| 6f3e5c8 | Do you know ? You must, at least, know it- it's a cultural landmark, for Pete's sake. Even if you just think of it as the book by that lady who looks like Dan Aykroyd and bleeds a lot, you know it. But do you know the book itself? Try to get your hands on one of the early hardback editions- they're not exactly rare. For a while there, every American housewife who could boil water had a copy, or so I've heard. It's not lushly illustrate.. | french-cooking julia-child | Julie Powell | |
| c669b64 | Once the leeks and potatoes have simmered for an hour or so, you mash them up with a fork or a food mill or a potato ricer. All three of these options are far more of a pain in the neck than the Cuisinart- one of which space-munching behemoths we scored when we got married- but Julia Child allows as how a Cuisinart will turn soup into "something un-French and monotonous." Any suggestion that uses the construction "un-french" is up for debat.. | julia-child potato soup | Julie Powell | |
| 8fe1d91 | It had started so well. The night after I wrote my first-ever blog entry, I made Bifteck Saute au Beurre and Artichauts au Naturel- the first recipes in the meat and vegetable chapters of , respectively. The steak I merely fried in a skillet with butter and oil- butter and oil because not only did I not have the beef suet that was the other option, I didn't even know what beef but . Then I just made a quick sauce out of the juices from th.. | butter french-cooking julie-powell steaks | Julie Powell | |
| ca741b5 | Eric had to make me wake up for long enough to take out my contacts. | Julie Powell | ||
| 284a84a | Something about knowing exactly what you're doing, and why. | Julie Powell | ||
| 4abeebd | Lulled by the calming music of ice clattering in the cocktail shaker, I began to ponder; this life we had going for ourselves | Julie Powell | ||
| 4a6cb4d | The Rognons de Veau a la Bordelaise did not taste like piss, no matter what my mother says, because I cleaned them with my deadly boning knife, and because the beef marrow conducted a two-pronged attack with the finishing sprinkling of parsley on any holdout pissiness- extinguishing it between fatty, velvety richness and sharp, fresh greenness. We ate it with a wine that I bought in the city that is cloudy and dark and tastes a little like .. | chocolate-cake food-and-wine french-food julie-powell kidneys tastes | Julie Powell | |
| 6f5e5e5 | Yes," said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent." | vivid-imagery | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 969844c | You went out with a bang when you took with you all my dreams underground. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 76c13b2 | The eyes of men were but pinholes...All their books, even their scriptures, were nothing more than pinholes. And yet, because they couldn't see what was unseen, they assumed they saw everything, they confused pinpricks with the sky. | R. Scott Bakker |