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A. Harvey Block Quotes (1 quote)

“The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.”
―A. Harvey Block

Quotes by other famous authors

“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”
―Linus Torvalds

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
―Theodore Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

“Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.”
―Jose Ortega y Gasset

Source/Notes:
The Dehumanization of Art (1948)

“The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”
―Mignon McLaughlin

“The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.”
―Edward Gibbon

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