“I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.” WayWantGivingWritingHumansI CanEnoughStoriesMy OwnSecretMoralAirCostCuriosityLove StoryDataInfrastructureScratchesThin Air Author:James Ellroy
“I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.” WantLifeMy OwnMy Own LifePassengersKnowing Who You Are Author:Diane Ackerman
“I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.” WantUseBigsGoalMy OwnCitiesStreetsNew YorkDesignBallsTennisNew York CityWalkersTennis Balls Author:Abbey Curran
“I'm really thankful to have my own record label. I've always looked up to people like Madonna when she launched Maverick Records. Even Jay Z and Sean "Puffy" Combs, who's a mentor and also gave me a shot when I was an independent artist in Atlanta. He came to my show, and he said, "I just want people to know about you."” PeopleKnowsWantSaidShowsArtistMy OwnRecordsShotsIndependentLabelsMentorAtlantaSeanRecord LabelsCombsMaverick Author:Janelle Monae
“I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.” WantWritingReasonMovingCertainMy OwnBoundariesPreservesPoeticThirstUnknowingPerimeter Author:Jane Hirshfield
“When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.” WantKindMy OwnKnowingProgramAvailableProtectionImprovementVersionsEnjoymentProgrammingFree Time Author:Linus Torvalds
“I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.” WayWantNeedsWritingHas BeensUseCareMy OwnAttitudeProductsNegativeAlternativesMicrosoftNegative Attitude Author:Linus Torvalds
“Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.” WantMindChildrenWantedSchoolFunMy OwnOne ThingPaintingFameFinishedLive LifeHaving FunMy Time Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi