David Langford Quotes
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
David Langford
Quotes to Explore
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I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.
Laini Taylor
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If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.
Barack Obama
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Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.
C. Wright Mills
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My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln
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We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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How can a reason which hates God be called sound?
Martin Luther
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Erica Jong
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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
Albert Camus
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Every time you win a cup it's special, but it's a dream come true when it happens at a club where you started in the youth set-up, surrounded by friends who formed an incredible generation of players.
Clarence Seedorf
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If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
Ethan Canin
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It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.
Esther Dyson
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My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.
Paloma Elsesser
