“In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.” ThinkingTryingEarthQualityMusicFireSeriousWindMusicianDiedClintonTouchingSeventiesParliamentRejuvenation Author:Maurice White
“I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.” FallFatherPartySeriousDiedForgivenSpoiledChristmas DayTwigsFather DiedNever ForgiveFalling OffMy Father DiedSerious Things Author:John Nettles
“Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays.” WritingArtPlayStoriesHappensFormUsedClassMiddleSeriousDiedIncomeUsed To BeEveningPostsDecentMiddle ClassShort StorySaturdayBroadwayOutletsPlaywrightLiving OnStory WritersScott FitzgeraldSaturday Evening Author:William Monahan
“In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.” PeoplePersonsEnoughWholeProblemHappensResultsSecretCompanyShareBuildingSeriousDiedTraditionalSoftwareWitchcraftGuardedGuarding Author:Linus Torvalds