Call me Quote by Linus Torvalds

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

— Anonymous

“But to me, the argument is just semantics, an exercise in mental masturbation. True, Degas painted neither plein air nor spontaneously, but he had…

— Barbara A. Shapiro

“Can we perceive those inorganic beings, don Juan?" I asked. "We certainly can," he replied. "Sorcerers do it at will. Average people do it,…

— Carlos Castaneda

If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security…

— Linus Torvalds

To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is…

— Mervyn King

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real,…

— Philip K. Dick

“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair…

— Pierre Boulle

“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Most men have learned…

— Thoreau Henry David

“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. - Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,”

— Noam Chomsky

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to…

— Victor J. Stenger