In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art... is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With proper attribution, to quote another's thoughts and words is appropriate; plagiarism, however, is cheating, and it may break ...copyright law as well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist an...d has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get dru...nk on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares them ...with new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that ...one did not see them when they were enchanting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never im...agine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] opened... on his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »