Oskary 2015 Quotes & Sayings

It's not just the music. When we develop a working AI or upload minds, we'll need a way of defending it against legal threats. That's what Gianni pointed out to me ... — Charles Stross

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on — Theodore Roosevelt

Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions. — M.F. Moonzajer

I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation. — Howard Hughes

black is beautiful — Me

As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them. — Wayne Rogers

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. — Jane Siberry

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written. — Kenneth Goldsmith

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington post:"Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale, insipid, and brooding. Examples abound ... Rats kept in comfortable isolation quickly become jumpy, irritable, and aggressive. Their bodies twitch, their tails grow scaly." The backcountry traveler, then, in addition to developing such skills as the use of a map and compass, or the prevention and treatment of blisters, must prepare mentally and materially to cope with boredom, lest his tail grow scaly. — Jon Krakauer

There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist. — Hugh Downs

No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not. — Mel Brooks

In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer. — Jeffrey Skilling

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. — Arthur Eddington