Brault Pirates Quotes & Sayings

As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon. — Matt Blaze

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.' — Marcia Gay Harden

How can you respect a religion that forces women into polygamous marriages, mutilates their genitals, forbids them to drive cars and subjects them to the humiliation of 'instant' divorce? In fact, none of these practices are Islamic at all. Anyone wishing to understand Islam must first separate the religion from the cultural norms and style of a society. — Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being. — Francis Bacon

Getting sliced up by a Jimmy Choo knockoff hadn't exactly been my finest moment as Cadogan Sentinel. — Chloe Neill

The final portrait is often furthest from the truth. — Dave Cullen

Nations warred over anthills and pride. — Peter Tieryas

And it's deadly to us. We can inspire lust, but it's just a shadow. An illusion. Love is a dangerous force." He shook his head. "Love killed the dinosaurs, man."
I'm pretty sure a meteor killed the dinosaurs, Thomas."
He shrugged. "There's a theory making the rounds now that when the meteor hit it only killed off the big stuff. That there were plenty of smaller reptiles running around, about the same size as all the mammals at the time. The reptiles should have regained their position eventually, but they didn't, because the mammals could feel love. They could be utterly, even irrationally devoted to their mates and their offspring. It made them more likely to survive. The lizards couldn't do that. The meteor hit gave the mammals their shot, but it was love that turned the tide. — Jim Butcher

You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first. — Fred Rogers

Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious. — Daniel Abraham

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down. — Albert Einstein

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy. — Azar Nafisi

he's a fine, fine horse, — Michael Morpurgo

Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us. — Thomas Paine