Exocortex Quotes & Sayings

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year. — Jan C. Ting

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. — Mark Twain

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. — Leo Tolstoy

A lot of people think Utah is a bad place to play, but hell nah, — Josh Howard

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die. — Steven Erikson

Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already largely abandoned the Republican Party. — Rick Perlstein

I ask why they picked that particular failing strategy. A common answer: They say that they heard that it was a perfect strategy, an A-strategy, for getting word out about a company. Everyone is using it. What they haven't taken into account, though, is their own disposition, talents, and resources. Their own readiness. Businesses are like individuals. What's perfect for one is awful for another. There is no such thing as an objective "A-strategy." An A-strategy is only an A-strategy if you'll execute on it. If you don't have the desire, talent, or resources to fully execute, then your B- or C-strategy should be elevated to A-strategy status. Execute on the strategy you'll perform with gusto. Gusto matters. Excitement matters. Follow-through matters. Completion matters. — Mark Levy

Why? Why are you doing this?"

"Because, even though you sometimes make my job ten times harder than it needs to be, I've never doubted your abilities for a second. — E.J. Fisch

Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons
literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331) — Charles Stross