Cxxv1 Quotes & Sayings

Escape is a consumer goods like another — Iain Banks

And yet Rebecca felt that it was hard to tell whether the secret algorithms of Big Data did not so much reveal you to yourself as they tried to dictate to you what you were to be. To accept that the machines knew you better than you knew yourself involved a kind of silent assent: you liked the things Big Data told you you were likely to like, and you loved the people it said you were likely to love. To believe entirely in the data entailed a slight diminishment of the self, small but crucial and, perhaps, irreversible. — Dexter Palmer

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more. — John Zorn

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. — Grover Norquist

This world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts. — David Mitchell

I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result. — Colin Trevorrow

Science fiction is more than just our collective dreams for a human race that reaches to the stars. In many ways, the dreams of yesterday are becoming the realities of today and the path for tomorrow. — George Takei

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it. — Jim Garrison

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol

I traced lazy shapes along her hip and waist. The figure eight made her shiver and wiggle closer, so it was my favorite. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. — Charles Caleb Colton