Vernor Vinge Quotes
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.Vernor Vinge
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
Harlan Ellison -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook -
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim -
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
Harold Wilson -
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
Felix Baumgartner -
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny -
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. Raman -
I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
Laura Dern -
All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
Inara George -
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian -
Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
Zac Goldsmith -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie -
I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
Rachel Kushner
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Petrarch -
The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
Florentijn Hofman -
As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
Vernor Vinge