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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6d49ca6 | The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time." | Isaac Asimov | ||
| bf0d3d2 | It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 9f74441 | I shall not be alive a half decade hence," said Seldon, "and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we refer by the term, 'man." | philosophy | Isaac Asimov | |
| 69940bd | Since I do not believe in so many things, it is not difficult for me to disbelieve in the Fall as well, so that I am entirely convinced I will be telling the truth to the people. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d5d9fcd | In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 9de90bb | People actually like supporting the artists whose work they like. It makes them feel happy. You don't have to force them. And if you force them, they don't feel as good. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| ba748dc | Everything good in the world comes from the efforts of people who came before us. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 3bd2d44 | Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see? | movie-industri piracy | Cory Doctorow | |
| b5d5a52 | I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 7617d40 | Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn't a utopian is a shmuck. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 13c9daa | If there's a disaster, do you go over to your neighbor's house with: a) a covered dish or b) a shotgun? It's game theory. If you believe your neighbor is coming over with a shotgun, you'd be an idiot to pick a); if she believes the same thing about you, you can bet she's not going to choose a) either. The way to get to a) is to do a) even if you think your neighbor will pick b). Sometimes she'll point her gun at you and tell you to get off .. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| a037c77 | Mientras el corazon lata y la carne palpite, no me explico que un ser dotado de voluntad se deje dominar por la desesperacion. | Jules Verne | ||
| 961add1 | Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures | Jules Verne | ||
| f70469e | The Danube is not blue, as Karl Isidore Beck calls it in the lines which suggested to Strauss the fetching, mendacious title of his waltz. The Danube is blond, 'a szoke Duna', as the Hungarians say, but even that 'blond' is a Magyar gallantry, or a French one, since in 1904 Gaston Lavergnolle called it More down to earth, Jules Verne thought of entitling a novel Muddy yellow is the water that grows murky at the bottom of these [the Stru.. | Claudio Magris | ||
| 1030684 | Besides," said Kennedy, "the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be particularly amusing. If men go on inventing machinery they'll end up by being swallowed by their own machines. I've always thought that the last day will be brought about by some colossal boiler heated to three thousand atmospheres blowing up the world." "And I bet the Yankees will have had a hand in it," said Joe." | Jules Verne | ||
| 06f6f52 | It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist! | Jules Verne | ||
| 8d360fd | While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert, Henry, that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. | Jules Verne | ||
| b31b7df | Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling!" | Jules Verne | ||
| 7560d7b | If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2dbf88f | One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary. | curiosity | Jules Verne | |
| 2f0505b | As for seeing the town, the idea never occurred to him, for he was the sort of Englishman who, on his travels, gets his servant to do his sightseeing for him. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9f7bca1 | Where others have failed, I will not fail. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9c6488d | Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2102601 | People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands. | Jules Verne | ||
| 3a092f1 | My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends. | Jules Verne | ||
| 6a4b7fc | Oh, how hard it is to understand the hearts of girls and women. When they are not the most timid of creatures, they are the bravest. Reason has no part in their lives. | women love strength-of-females reasoning | Jules Verne | |
| 5531c52 | We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition! | Jules Verne | ||
| 3ccc596 | It is only when you suffer that you truly understand. | empathy discipleship maturation | Jules Verne | |
| 7ad307c | One's native land!--there should one live! there die! | Jules Verne | ||
| 5953ad7 | From a caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man. Not a mistake has been made in the working. But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. | Jules Verne | ||
| 3b4a01b | Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9b67668 | See that little stream -- we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it -- a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation." "Why, they've only just quit over in Turkey," said Abe. "And in Morocco --" "That's diff.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 10378d1 | It] wants you to believe there are foreseeable trends and forces. When in fact it's all random phenomena. You apply mathematics and other disciplines, yes. But in the end you're dealing with a system that's out of control. Hysteria at high speeds, day to day, minute to minute. "People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e9540cb | The world is full of abandoned meanings. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 6070e11 | El sexo nos descubre. El sexo nos revela como somos. Por eso es tan estremecedor. Nos despoja de toda apariencia. Veo a una mujer practicamente desnuda y agotada, necesitada, acariciando una botella de plastico que oprime entre las piernas. [...] Ella es el amor de su vida, su amante, su puta imperecedera. El no tiene que hacer esa cosa innombrable que tanto desea hacer. Basta con que lo diga. Es asi porque ambos estan mas alla de cualquier.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 64b814a | Sometimes it takes an entire morning to outlive a dream, to outwake a dream. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 800af65 | It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then he is upside down. Then he is right side up. You shoot at a series of images conveyed to you through a metal tube. The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if y.. | violence war technology | Don DeLillo | |
| ed5e3e1 | Is his manhood a sham? Does he love himself or hate himself? I don't think he knows. Or it changes minute to minute. Or the question is so implicit in everything he does that he can't get outside it to answer | Don DeLillo | ||
| e4519a8 | you never consider but might find amazing if you did, how the details of contact, the eye movement and hand waves, the smiles of recognition, the catch-up lives that propel the early dialogue--how this becomes an energy that moves among the guests like a circulating angel, inspiring stories, rumors, flirtations and misconstrued remarks, basically the makings of human history, even | Don DeLillo | ||
| 35e1bf3 | She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8b647da | Ordinary moments make the life. This is what she knew to be trustworthy and this is what I learned, eventually, from those years we spent together. No leaps or falls. I inhale the little drizzly details of the past and know who I am. What I failed to know before is clearer now, filtered up through time, an experience belonging to no one else, not remotely, no one, anyone, ever. I watch her use the roller to remove lint from her cloth coat. .. | metaphysics moments | Don DeLillo | |
| b024fbd | Ample women do not plan such things. They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 39ba080 | I realized the place was awash in noise. The toneless systems, the jangle and skid of carts, the loudspeaker and coffee-making machines, the cries of children. And over it all, or under it all, a dull and unlocatable roar, as of some form of swarming life just outside the range of human apprehension. | Don DeLillo | ||
| a647891 | At breakfast, Babette read all our horoscopes aloud, using her storytelling voice. I tried not to listen when she got to mine, although I think I wanted to listen, I think I sought some clues. | Don DeLillo |