Piloo Mody Quotes & Sayings

All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million shareholders in the United States, but let me tell you something: about 15 million of those people could save their dividends for 10 years and maybe buy a new suit. That's not what I call capitalism. — Louis O. Kelso

Nature normally hates power laws. In ordinary systems all quantities follow bell curves, and correlations decay rapidly, obeying exponential laws. But all that changes if the system is forced to undergo a phase transition. Then power laws emerge-nature's unmistakable sign that chaos is departing in favor of order. The theory of phase transitions told us loud and clear that the road from disorder to order is maintained by the powerful forces of self-organization and is paved by power laws. It told us that power laws are not just another way of characterizing a system's behavior. They are the patent signatures of self-organization in complex systems. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

One day, I will be a child again. Carved toys will caper and dance from my mind, out across rock I will raise as mountains. Through grasses I will proclaim forests. For too long I have been trapped in this world of measures, proportions and scale. For too long I have known and understood the limits of what is possible, so cruel in rejecting all that can be imagined. In this way, friend, we are each of us not one but two lives, for ever locked in mortal combat, and from all things at hand, we make weapons.' - Hust Henarald — Steven Erikson

Be at the aim of a gun, but you get out of Larsson TIGER's green eyes sight ... — Pet Torres

Don't think. It complicates things. Just feel, and if it feels like home, then follow its path. - r. m. drake - — Shanora Williams

Susan, Susan -- Poetry: aviation! Prose: infantry. [to Susan Sontag] — Joseph Brodsky

The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use. — Eric Pianka

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything is ... so white."
"Of course it's white," said Simon. "It's a wedding."
"White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. "But for mundanes, Jace, it's the color of weddings. Brides wear white to symbolize their purity."
"I thought Jocelyn said her dress wasn't white," Simon said.
"Well," said Jace, "I suppose that ship has sailed."
Luke choked on his coffe. — Cassandra Clare

There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.Dr. Stubbs Catch -22 — Joseph Heller

It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal. — George Saunders

She'd forgotten what it was like to be Fae, to have one foot always in the forest. — Sarah J. Maas