I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under running water your eyes won't sting, and if you wash your fingers afterwards with lemon-juice they won't stink. I used to want to know all the secrets, and every time I learned one, I felt like I'd taken--a step. On a journey. To a place. A destination: to be the kind of person who knew all this stuff, the way everyone around me seemed to know all this stuff. I thought that once I knew enough secrets, I'd be like them. . Cory Doctorow
Higher-level capture devices, because they are complicated and involve novel applications of new technologies, tend to fail in unexpected ways. Thus, only after some years was it realized that Hot Spot may not work well if the weather is very hot and that it may...
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Harry Collins
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.
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Vince Lombardi Jr.
The score never interested me, only the game.
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Mae West
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
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Babe Ruth
I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.
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Michael Jordan
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I used to want to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature.
