Gripevine

Steve Jobs was one opinionated fellow. Besides Apple and turtlenecks, he was also known for uttering memorable quotes and quips. Some were barbs aimed at competitors *ouch*, but a lot of it was inspirational in nature. So last week when the world awoke to news of his death, netizens flooded social media platforms with his most memorable quotes - " Stay hungry, stay foolish", they urged each other. Admirers paid gushing tribute to the man, his life and achievements. Now all these Job-aholics, the ones who were deifying the man and garlanding him with virtual wreaths, do they really understand what he meant? Remember "Think Different"? That famous slogan from Apple's 1997 advertising campaign......well Facebook and Twitter was flooded with people telling each other to "Think Different". Easy enough to say, but how many people out there are brave enough to think different and be different? Faced with those twin Demons - Society and Social Pre...

On a recent trawl through the web, I chanced upon several quotes that in my opinion describes the temperament of a writer. Here they are in no particular order: "A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave." - Oscar Wilde "If you cannot annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." - Kingsley Amis  "Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted." - Jules Renard "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury "The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads." - William Styron "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." - Gustave Flaubert "It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words as any good environmentally conscious writer would do."...