Egw Quotes & Sayings

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Seek protection from the supreme-being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain. — John Locke

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover. — George Herman

I will love you more today than I loved you yesterday, and I will love you even more, tomorrow. — William Chapman

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. — Kevin Mitnick

If you don't have passion, change. — Lauren Hutton

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. — William Whewell

Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it. — Conor Oberst

What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that
capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially
available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the
Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth
process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers
capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided
that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism. — Francis Fukuyama

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly. — Laetitia Pilkington