Quoting Smiles
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."~Henry David Thoreau
"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."~Arthur C. Clarke, from First on the Moon
"People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick."~Scott Westerfeld
"The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own."~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
"Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop."~Ralph Novak
"The ancestor of every action is a thought."~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."~Jules Renard
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."~Leo Tolstoy
"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."~Arthur C. Clarke, from First on the Moon
"People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick."~Scott Westerfeld
"The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own."~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
"Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop."~Ralph Novak
"The ancestor of every action is a thought."~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."~Jules Renard
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."~Leo Tolstoy