We Learn Nothing Tim Kreider Quotes & Sayings

You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used for? It's being used to throw angry birds at pigs; it's being used to send pictures of your cat to people halfway around the world; it's being used to check in as the virtual mayor of a virtual nowhere while you're riding a subway from the nineteenth century. — Peter Thiel

Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe. — Joanna Wylde

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results ... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight. — George R R Martin

People always want to live, even during wartime. You'll learn a lot from living through a war...There is no beast worse than man. — Svetlana Alexievich

No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there. — Anna Kamienska

Bugrit! Millennium Hand and Shrimp — Terry Pratchett

More than developing confidence in the reliability of new energy technologies, and even more of a challenge than the admittedly complex task of designing and constructing an infrastructure that will allow consumer access to them, what stands in the way of our apparent will to wean ourselves from conventional energy sources is the reluctance to wean ourselves from old ways of thinking. — Jane Hoffman

It is not a good idea to spray finest brandy across the room, especially when your lighted cigar is in the way. — Terry Pratchett

At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God's face. — Craig Stone

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job. — Moby