“It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.” PeopleThinkingCertainNormalDignityStriveQuittingCollapse Book:Notebooks Source: Notebooks
“UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.” ThinkingWayYearsKindPhilosophyHomeUsedEvilBehindsDesignGrewNormalWindowCleanStriveCoreUsersStrifeMicrosoftProgrammersOperating SystemsUnix Author:Linus Torvalds
“What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."” IfsSeemsEnergyChildhoodBecomingNormalOur ChildrenDown AndStriveInevitableAnxiousHierarchyBecoming More Author:Gloria Steinem
“There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams.” NeedsDreamBigsGirlGenerationsAchieveInspireNormalStriveBoundariesPushingFuture GenerationPioneers Author:Joanna Lohman