We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.Mark Zuckerberg
Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.Howard Jacobson
I think one of the main reasons I write is to do better than ranting. The ranting is the opinion, and the writing is not the opinion. I always say that people's opinions are the worst things about them. The words demand a dignity.Howard Jacobson
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.Douglas Coupland
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.Salman Rushdie
Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.Salman Rushdie