The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes ascetic leader notion
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. Nick Harkaway appallfearhorror Change image and share on social
The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology. Nick Harkaway aversecultureliterary Change image and share on social
My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great. Nick Harkaway competecompetitiondad share on social
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. Steven Pinker asceticclotheearth Change image and share on social
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius. Golan Levin freegeniusincompatible Change image and share on social
