Fables For The Cybernetic Age Quotes & Sayings

Love rules everything but itself. — Raheel Farooq

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere. — Virgil

We need three basic things to live - food, clothing, and shelter. Very few of us actually grow our own food, make our own clothes, and build our own homes. If we do not fulfill our basic needs by ourselves, why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to do everything else on our own? Just what are we trying to prove? — Christine Hassler

The fact was, there wasn't room on earth for a couple million gold-farmers to turn into high-paid video-game executives. The fact was, if you had to slice the pie into enough pieces to give one to everyone, you'd end up slicing them so thin you could see through them. "When 30,000 people share an apple, no one benefits
especially not the apple." It was a quote one of his economics profs had kept written in the corner of his white-board, and any time a student started droning on about compassion for the poor, the old prof would just tap the board and say, "Are you willing to share your lunch with 30,000 people? — Cory Doctorow

Thus began the weeks of what we termed being reckless - and I worry from that viewpoint, at least, that word defines our entire relationship. Reid lives his life in a reckless way, and ever since his life collided with mine last summer, I've been unbalanced. The trajectory of my safe, small orbit cannot contain him, and no amount of wishing will change that. — Tammara Webber

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact. — G.K. Chesterton

As all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping. — Julia McNair Wright

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man. — Laozi

I never want to be called a 'good loser.' Show me a good loser and I'll just show you a loser. — Stu Ungar

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans. — Peggy Noonan

Being told when to shit, shower, shave, eat, and sleep isn't my idea of paradise. But then again, Paradise, where i grew up, wasn't paradise either. I'm wondering if paradise is just some word in the dictionary with the definition: this doesn't fucking exist.
Caleb to himself — Simone Elkeles

In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul. — Robert Morneau

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it. — Lamar Odom

Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing! — Stanislaw Lem

To Randy and the others, the business plan functions as Torah, master calendar,
motivational text, philosophical treatise. It is a dynamic, living document. — Neal Stephenson