"Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book."

-- Karl Schroeder

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“My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”

Source : John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”
“Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.”
“Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos. There's a reason we don't allow you to upload photos on the Web as albums. It's not about taking all these photos off your DSLR putting them into an album and sharing them with your family. It's not about that. It's about what are you up to right now out in the real world, how can you share that with everyone.”
“It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.”

Source : "Books shed light on Bernard Madoff's shady activities" by Kerry Hannon, abcnews.go.com. September 17, 2009.
“The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.”
“The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.”

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