Cuestas Significado Quotes & Sayings

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. — Jean Rostand

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal. — Evan Esar

We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable. — Wendell Berry

Conduct is more convincing than language. — John Woolman

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction, sometimes causing the machinery to break into pieces. In a famous paper "On Governors," published in 1867, Maxwell modeled the behavior and showed mathematically that tightly controlling the speed of engines leads to instability. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth — Theodor W. Adorno

There's only one way to satisfy a ghoul's hunger. — Sui Ishida

It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew. — Emma Donoghue

From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. — James Gleick