Calculative Thinking Quotes & Sayings

Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea that there's something interesting in their lives. It's musical chairs in reverse ... All the upgrades in existence lead to the same airports and resort hotels, the same pina colada bullshit. The tourists smile at their tans and their shiny teeth and think they're happy. But the suntans hide who they really are
salary slaves, with heads full of American rubbish. Travel is the last fantasy the 2oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself. — J.G. Ballard

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion. — James Buchanan

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. — Walter Bagehot

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at. — Jane Austen

Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages. — Rob Pike

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. — Solomon

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't. — Bob Dylan

For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings. — Otto Frank

Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The last god has his own most unique uniqueness and stands outside of the calculative determination expressed in the labels "mono-theism," "pan-theism," and "a-theism." There has been "monotheism," and every other sort of "theism," only since the emergence of Judeo-Christian "apologetics," whose thinking presupposes "metaphysics." With the death of this God, all theisms wither away. The multiplicity of gods is not subject to enumeration but, instead, to the inner richness of the grounds and abysses in the site of the moment for the lighting up and concealment of the intimation of the last god. — Martin Heidegger

interrupted, he would fall silent, then began his sentence again in exactly the same place to tell it in his own way, at his own speed. — Mar Preston