However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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In a letter to his sister, New Year's Day, 1882. Quoted in the PrefaceMatthew Arnold
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An author that's in now might be out in ten years. And vice-versa. Who knows when the final sifting is done, in the year 2050, say, who will be read of my generation? You'd like to think you will be one. But there has to be a constant weeding that goes on. The Victorians read all kinds of writers who we don't have time for now. Who reads Thackeray? An educated person reads Dickens, or reads some Dickens. But Thackeray?
John Updike
Jobs took over. He simply came in and said, "I'm taking over Macintosh hardware; you can have software and publications." ... And then a few months later Jobs said, "I'm taking over software; you can have publications." So I said, "You can have publications too," and left. That was in May of 1982. He and Markkula said, "Please don't leave. Give us another month and we'll make you an offer you can't refuse." So I gave Apple a month; they made me an offer, and I refused.
Jef Raskin
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
Philip Kindred - a.k.a. PKD Dick
Actually... "GP reader" is an oxymoron, Dennis, as I haven't found that a single person who posts here reads anything other than cheat code books. No newspapers, no Bible, no Constitution, none of the West's classics, just cheat code books. Very, very sad. Criminal, really. Jack
Jack Thompson
Jail Inmates: Eighty fff....Eighty fff....Eighty fff....Eighty fff....Eighty Six!
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