Ethereally Touched Quotes & Sayings

Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal. Simulation is both safer and faster. The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have cumulated in subjective consciousness. — Richard Dawkins

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself. — Dianna Agron

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. — John Battelle

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile. — Bryan White

I don't do epilogues. I hate epilogues. It's like nailing the coffin shut on the story, allowing for no further growth and leaving no room for the readers' imaginations. — Rick Riordan

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence. — Frank Herbert

The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads. — Mitt Romney

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way. — Augusten Burroughs

Always look at what people do, not who they are. — Gloria Steinem