16tona Quotes & Sayings

I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it. — Daniel Kahneman

The teacher asks a question.
You know the answer, you suspect
you are the only one in the classroom
who knows the answer, because the person
in question is yourself, and on that
you are the greatest living authority,
but you don't raise your hand.
You raise the top of your desk
and take out an apple.
You look out the window.
You don't raise your hand and there is
some essential beauty in your fingers,
which aren't even drumming, but lie
flat and peaceful.
The teacher repeats the question.
Outside the window, on an overhanging branch,
a robin is ruffling its feathers
and spring is in the air. — Mary Ruefle

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters. — Doug Liman

Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path. — Sara Little Turnbull

I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life. — Sammy Sosa

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct. — Russell Means

It's main storytelling hell because it's really hard to keep a secret. It's really hard to not communicate. But I think that's what's great about this world is it's a world where he is off the grid, and for me, it's a way to step back. — Brian Wayne Peterson

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety. — Mary Wesley

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. What you see is what you get. — Fan Bingbing

I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately. — Helen Clark

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings ... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters. — Walter Jon Williams