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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e2c532b | When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back. Why not? Why shouldn't it? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 2584b25 | The end times were not the end times after all. The end times were always coming but never here, always nearby and influencing us but never realized. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 875c495 | Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning. After all, if a chickenhead could fathom Latin he would cease to be a chickenhead. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 52569a5 | In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thought. They're so graceful and polite. And I--the white barbarian. It is true. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7761908 | Betty, having returned from the kitchen, had once more seated herself on the carpet. How attractive, Robert Childan thought again. The slender body. Their figures are so superior; not fat, not bulbous. No bra or girdle needed. I must conceal my longing; that at all costs. And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln befo.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a3dc86d | Ferris Fremont hasn't just taken over the country,' I said, 'He's also taken over human minds. And debased them.' P 'The Bible says don't judge,' Nicholas said. P 'The Bible says, "My kingdom is not of this world,"' I answered angrily." -- | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f4ab9ed | The human being has an unfortunate tendency to wish to please. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 945a18f | Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If he had remained in Berkeley he would have lived and died a partial person, never knowing completeness. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0f514e7 | And this is the straight dope, right here. These people are not exactly human. They don the dress but they're like monkeys dolled up in the circus. They're clever and can learn, but that is all. | ideology | Philip K. Dick | |
| dce511a | Most self-indulgent of all Nazis, and is in sharp contrast to late H. Himmler, who lived in personal want at low salary. Herr Goring representative of spoils mentality, using power as means of acquiring personal wealth. Primitive mentality, even vulgar, but quite intelligent man, possibly most intelligent of all Nazi chiefs. Object of his drives: self-glorification in ancient emperor fashion. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7b4f15e | Ti chiami Patty per caso?" le chiese Barris, facendo segno a Charles Freck che tutto era sotto controllo. "No." Indico il nome scritto sul distintivo appuntato sulla tetta destra. "Beth." Mi chiedo come si chiami la tetta sinistra, penso Charles Freck." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0186273 | Bize "gecmisi hatirlamayanlar onu tekrar etmeye mahkumdur," denir, ama belki de bu daha iyidir. Belki de iyi olan tek sey budur; unutmayi basarmak." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b6417a4 | And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 3966e3e | According to AC, serious historical inquiry incorrectly considers the question *what if* to be the turf of Philip K. Dick or comic book titles like *What if the Incredible Hulk Had the Brain of Bruce Banner?* Although historians were not in the business of assigning probabilities to historical events, AC opined they should. 'Look, chum," he once expounded, 'it's not like anything can happen at any time. You have to consider *conditions of p.. | H.M. Naqvi | ||
| 61630e6 | We have no value, she said to herself. We can live out our tiny lives. If we want to. If it matters to us. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7615483 | Everything's the same, when you break through to absolute reality; it's all one vast blur. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b822078 | Italy being a traitor?" His voice grated. "The Duce--he was a clown; we all know that." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a78114c | Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f2615ff | Gli aveva insegnato ad odiare se stesso, e poi, una volta completato l'opera, lo aveva lasciato | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7f65dc8 | In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| c7f9490 | When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm. I always loved computers. All of a sudden I just didn't care. It was, all of a sudden, a job. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| a119b38 | It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| b1a5798 | One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, "Computers are irrelevant." Building" | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 9e766c8 | Too much protocol. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 63af7ee | How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist." | writing writing-process | Tracy Kidder | |
| 0ae877d | Virchow was the perfect role model for anyone who wanted to change the world, or at least lessen the inequality between the rich and poor. One of Farmer's favorite Virchow quotes was "The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them." Virchow viewed the world in a way that made sense to Farmer, his vision a comprehensive one that included pathology--the study of disease--with soc.. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 02d3da9 | At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic. His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Better yet, he added, allow for a full and unlimited democracy in Upper Silesia. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| f44e0de | But he realized that Haiti was now so embedded in his mind and heart that he could never abandon the country so quickly. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| b65843d | As they say, the first step in fixing something is getting it to break. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 83a272c | To an outsider, building a school before there was a medical clinic, or someone to deal with the problems of hunger and homelessness, was illogical, but Farmer and Lafontant understood that the school meant hope and empowerment. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 830774b | Everything is quantified," he said. "Whether it's the technology or the way people use it, it has an insidious ability to reduce things to less than human dimensions." | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 3342fc0 | No one keeps track of the hours we work," said Ken Holberger. He grinned. "That's not altruism on Data General's part. If anybody kept track, they'd have to pay us a hell of a lot more than they do." Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thin.. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 4413dbe | We can spend sixty-eight thousand dollars per TB patient in New York City, but if you start giving watches or radios to patients here, suddenly the international health community jumps on you for creating nonsustainable projects. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| cc32302 | If disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, then epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 617dce6 | People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be." - Paul Farmer" | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 9725531 | On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 47a4fc4 | If two smart and logical people disagree it's because they are acting on different information | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 3b48d10 | They were learning the reality of war, these youngsters, getting face to face with the sickening realization that men get killed uselessly because their generals are stupid, so that desperate encounters where the last drop of courage has been given serve the country not at all and make a patriot look a fool. | Bruce Catton | ||
| b56b098 | There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect. It is slack-jawed, with leering eyes and loose wet lips, with heavy feet and ponderous cunning hands; now and then, when something tickles it, it guffaws, and when it is made angry it snarls; and it can be aroused much more easily than it can be quieted. Mike | Bruce Catton | ||
| 18f0fbc | Nashville was a prize. Johnston had left in a hurry, abandoning huge quantities of supplies -- half a million pounds of bacon, much bread and flour, and bales of new tents, the latter greatly welcomed by the Federals, who had left their own tents far behind them. The Federals were having their first experience in occupying a Confederate capital, and they found numerous timid citizens who were ready to turn their coats and cuddle up to the i.. | Bruce Catton | ||
| 9d12af5 | For untaught soldiers it was rough, and men fought blindly, not knowing what they were doing; an officer came on one man who was loading his musket feverishly, firing straight up into the air, reloading and firing again, an automaton acting entirely by blind instinct. | Bruce Catton | ||
| 9635463 | It is recorded that during the long winter after the Battle of Fredericksburg, when the two rival armies were camped on opposite sides of the Rappahannock, with the boys on the opposing picket posts daily swapping coffee for tobacco and comparing notes on their generals, their rations, and other matters, and with each camp in full sight and hearing of the other, one evening massed Union bands came down to the river bank to play all of the o.. | Bruce Catton | ||
| 6cbc3a2 | The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky, seeing a far light on the horizon. Many lights had died in the windy dark but far down the road there was always a gleam, and it was as if a legend had been created to express some obscure truth that could not otherwise be stated. Everything had changed, the war and the men and the land they fought for, but the road ahead had not chang.. | Bruce Catton | ||
| 3ffa634 | The whole brigade took a queer, perverse pride in the regimental band of the 6th Wisconsin--not because it was so good, but because it was so terrible. It was able to play only one selection, something called "The Village Quickstep," and its dreadful inefficiency (the colonel referred to it in his memoirs as "that execrable band") might have been due to the colonel's quaint habit of assigning men to the band not for musical ability but as p.. | Bruce Catton |