Tollefsen Brothers Quotes & Sayings

I hugged both of them. Melanie for the friends we'd lost. And James for the hope he still carried. — Jodi Meadows

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. — Rem Koolhaas

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould

You need to know a lot about your own tiny field of expertise, but for the vast majority of life's necessities you rely blindly on the help of other experts, whose own knowledge is also limited to a tiny field of expertise. The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history. There is some evidence that the size of the average Sapiens brain has actually decreased since the age of foraging.5 Survival in that era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new 'niches for imbeciles' were opened up. — Yuval Noah Harari

We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well. — Bonnie Bassler

They are monsters, Malorie thinks. But she knows they are more than this. They are infinity. — Josh Malerman

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. — Jimmy Buffett

One mustn't justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat. — Courtney Milan

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world. — David Malouf