Todinov Quotes & Sayings

Recasting all complex social situations either as neatly defined problems with definite, computable solutions or as transparent and self-evident processes that can be easily optimized - if only the right algorithms are in place! - this quest is likely to have unexpected consequences that could eventually cause more damage than the problems they seek to address. — Evgeny Morozov

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing. — Greg Rusedski

In The Pale King, David Foster Wallace has his narrator remark that "it was a little bit like a for-profit company, my family, in that you were pretty much only as good as your last sales quarter. — William Deresiewicz

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop. — Colin Powell

He stabbed a sharp-nailed digit in the direction of the Shattered Straits, — Christie Golden

Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting & in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously & continuously a plan for self-development & growth. — David J. Schwartz

The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental. — James J. Hill

I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it. — Al Franken

President Obama announced this week that he is going to start sending out his own messages personally on Twitter. And today Anthony Weiner said, "It's a trap, don't do it!" But President Obama's tweets are a little different than Anthony Weiner's. When Obama sends out pictures of something obscene, it's the unemployment numbers. — Jay Leno

I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview. — Victor LaValle

You have to surrender yourself to the experience. — Thomm Quackenbush

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls. — Leymah Gbowee

In western medicine, sunshine is recommended for all kinds of diseases, and according to the Vedas a diseased man should worship the sun for cure. — Anonymous

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. — Rebecca Harding Davis