Vendors Quotes - Page 3

• By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

  Wallace Stegner

  Memories, Mind, Serious

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.12, Penguin

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• On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

  Jim Carroll

  Loyalty, Watches, Body

  Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.

  Bill Vaughan

  Years, Long, Six Months

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