Ferostav Quotes & Sayings

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. — Marilyn Manson

You need to be able to control it, otherwise it'll always control you," he said. "It'll scare you and manipulate you until you go crazy, die, or they find the cure. And guess which one of those things will propably happen first. — Alexandra Bracken

Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully designing shiny weapons on modern computers. But there's no thinking in the mud and cold of nature's trenches. At best, weapons thrown together amidst the explosions and confusion of smoky battlefields are tiny variations on old ones, held together by chewing gum. If they don't work, then something else is thrown at the enemy, including the kitchen sink - there's nothing "progressive" about that. At its usual worst, trench warfare is fought by attrition. If the enemy can be stopped or slowed by burning your own bridges and bombing your own radio towers and oil refineries, then away they go. Darwinian trench warfare does not lead to progress - it leads back to the Stone Age. — Michael J. Behe

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it? — Brandon Sanderson

The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic," the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. "Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease. — Jaron Lanier

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results. — Hakim Bey

But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for every one seriously engaged in making money. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them. — Mason Cooley

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family. — Lenny Abrahamson

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. — Walker Percy

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect! — Tippi Hedren

Stalking from the President's House towards the Servants' Lodge was an enormous cat, as broad as he was tall, with ginger hair fluffed out in a great halo. His expression was one of angry disdain. He placed his paws with great care. It was not that the ground actually trembled as he walked, but his ponderous gate suggested that he was distributing his weight with due regard for the fragility of the earth's crust. — Cormac Millar

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ... — Gail Caldwell

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner. — Carson McCullers