"I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having."
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"I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America."
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"People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it."
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"If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter."
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"To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well."
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"Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life."
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"I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow."
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"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."
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"A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code."
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"When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job."
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"Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well."
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"Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with."
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"Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular."
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"As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant."
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"I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships."
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"If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com."
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"The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape."
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"U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help."
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"The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent."
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"I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do so much non- organic for a living for other artists, it's just a break for me, for my ears and it confuses people that think my music is supposed to sound like the stuff I do for my day job, but that's just people that don't know me."
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