Poruporu Quotes & Sayings

I say!" he said. "Are you broke?"
Nelly laughed.
"Am I? If dollars were doughnuts, I wouldn't even have the hole in the
middle. — P.G. Wodehouse

You are not even seeing most of what's going on in the universe. On top of that, your brain filters out much of what it receives from the environment. So that what you are consciously aware of is only a fractional representation of your universe. — Abhijit Naskar

Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it. — Daniel Kahneman

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. — Steve Vai

[W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly. — Adolf Hitler

Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own. — Maya Angelou

I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been. — Lottie Moon

The government invented the Internet. — Jon Meacham

What we need is a nuke. - Ash
I knew I'd forgotten something. - Parvati — Sarwat Chadda

Feeling good about ourselves is a choice. So is feeling guilty. — Melody Beattie

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious. — Oliver Heaviside

What is a book for if not to be read? — Rachel R. Smith

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's ... might be a good idea. — Luis Von Ahn

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor. — Norbert Wiener

Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out. — Tamsin Greig