"You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions."

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Source : Michael Marshall Smith (2010). “Only Forward (Voyager Classics)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK

Michael Marshall Smith

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“But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light.”

Source : Introduction by Albrecht Durer (first lines) to Karl Popper "Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge", 1963.
“If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.”
“The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.”
“Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.”
“Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.”
“I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.”
“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
“For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Yearâ€™s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.”

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