Slashdot Quotes & Sayings

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource. — Richard Florida

In the beginning, I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed. — Monica Bellucci

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. — Norman Spinrad

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage. — Pedro Martinez

Because thee remains there, it is easier for me to go, for thee can be the shore I look back on, the star that remains fixed."
from "The Last Runaway — Tracy Chevalier

His theory is that life is loss,' said Myrna after a moment. 'Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we'll lose ourselves. — Louise Penny

It makes good times even better when you know they are going to end. Like grilled vegetables are better because some of them are partly soot. — M T Anderson

Niagara made a careful gesture, like some religious benediction: a diagonal slice across his chest and a stab to the heart. 'A slash and a dot,' he said. 'I doubt it means anything to you, but this was once the mark of an alliance of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the very first computer networks. The Federation of Polities can trace its existence right back to that fragile collective, in the early decades of the Void Century. It's less a stigma than a mark of community. — Alastair Reynolds

Never choose something because it's easier. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe