Pretorium Quotes & Sayings

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science. — Steven Pinker

Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company. — Sam Altman

People are afraid of anything they don't understand. When they understand, when they know the truth, they can do something about it. — Ann Weil

Toward the end of his second decade in the airport, Clark was thinking about how lucky he'd been. Not just the mere fact of survival, which was of course remarkable in and of itself, but to have seen one world end and another begin. And not just to have seen the remembered splendors of the former world, the space shuttles and the electrical grid and the amplified guitars, the computers that could be held in the palm of a hand and the high-speed trains between cities, but to have lived among those wonders for so long. To have dwelt in that spectacular world for fifty-one years of his life. Sometimes he lay awake in Concourse B of the Severn City Airport and thought, "I was there," and the thought pierced him through with an admixture of sadness and exhilaration. — Emily St. John Mandel

When we were little, people said we looked just like twins for no better reason than we might have been wearing the same color shirt. You had to wonder if they were truly looking at us. — Susan Gregg Gilmore

I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down. — David Foster Wallace

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine. — Caryl Rivers

No matter where you work or how you feel about the place, bless it with love. — Cheryl Richardson