"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."

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Alfred Whitney Griswold

#Criticism Quotes #Kind Quotes #Barren Quotes

“I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.”
“Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.”
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.”
“San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.”
“What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.”
“Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiquÃ©s assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.32, Head of Zeus
“If you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
“I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.”

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