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If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.
Mario Van Peebles
You
Man
People
Treat
Way
Easy
Environment
Between
Industrial
Sort
Disconnect
Very
Mechanical
There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.
Mario Van Peebles
You
Definitely
Out
Born
Environment
Limited
America
Getting
Where
Places
Really
Your
Chances
No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.
Mario Van Peebles
Success
You
Matter
Behavior
Girl
Some
Color
Mentor
Leads
Make
Because
Boy
Huge
Versus
Huge Difference
Model
Modeling
Difference
Little
Then
Lives
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Miguel de Icaza
Today
Every
Else
Software
Someone
Computers
Written
Piece
Likely
Patent
Going
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.
Miguel de Icaza
Art
Try
Will
Strategy
Other
Software
Our
Claim
Would
Find
Take
Developer
Dealing
Prior
Patent
Patents
Same
Any
Event
Mono
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
Miguel de Icaza
Learning
Programs
Considering
Out
Some
Also
Existing
Lot
Linux
Rolling
Which
Them
Customers
Migration
Desktop
I've never worked with the Java community.
Miguel de Icaza
Community
Never
Worked
Java
Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.
Miguel de Icaza
People
Too
Out
Most
Go
Microsoft
Far
Used
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
Miguel de Icaza
People
Word
Latex
Some
Writers
Days
Most
Scientists
Tex
Use
Thing
When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.
Miguel de Icaza
Job
Net
Outstanding
Done
Really
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
Miguel de Icaza
Time
Programming
Once
Net
Same
Same Time
Available
Languages
Published
They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.
Miguel de Icaza
Beautiful
System
Security
Infrastructure
Whole
In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Octavio Paz
Work
Eyes
Decision
Own
Our
Consists
Poetic
Tension
Instinct
Verse
Close
Us
Choose
Awaits
Each
Alert
Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
Octavio Paz
History
Reality
Society
Way
Though
One-Way
Marx
Marxism
Another
Historical
Being
Far
Even
Deeply
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Octavio Paz
Wisdom
Change
Neither
Constant
Lies
Between
Dialectic
Coming
Nor
Going
Momentary
Two
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz
Art
Criticism
Other
Distinguishes
Modern
Modern Art
Ages
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz
Wisdom
Change
Neither
Lies
Between
Dialectic
Nor
Two
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
Octavio Paz
Old
Criticism
Characteristic
Constant
Feature
Over
New
Tradition
Continuity
Contrast
Against
Modernity
Set
No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
Octavio Paz
Alone
Change
About
No-One
Another
Each
Here
Brings
Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
Octavio Paz
Work
Time
Nature
Technology
Man
Radical
Every
Changes
Negation
Our
Out
Horizon
More
Neutral
Throws
Environment
Between
Sterile
Course
Same
Modern
Same Time
Modern Man
Decisive
Us
Manner
Bridge
Now
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
Octavio Paz
World
Vision
More
More And More
Poetry
Surrealism
Even
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
Octavio Paz
Time
Speed
Our
Distant
Once
Ancestors
Neighbor
Posterity
Archaic
Picasso
He
Him
Without
Permits
Go
Going
Happen
Happening
Places
Centuries
Next-Door Neighbor
Now
Letting
Letting Go
Belong
Here
Two
Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
Octavio Paz
Great
Experience
Solitude
World
Poet
Seem
Faces
Only
He
Does
Discord
His
Modern
Walt
Walt Whitman
Whitman
Who
Even
Chorus
Universal
Monologue
The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
Octavio Paz
Future
Nature
Own
Our
Something
Invented
Does
Continent
Exist
America
Which
Land
Created
Presence
Present
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz
You
Society
Writers
Know
Western
Beggars
Western Society
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz
Eyes
Our
Ears
See
Poem
Poetry
Read
Hear
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