"The world is generally multivariate"

-- Edward Tufte

“Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.”
“After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from homeâ€” sheâ€™d actually done it.”
“You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”
“Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.”
“I've gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f**king curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.”

Source : "Michelle Rodriguez, Cara Delevingne Get Very Cuddly At New York Knicks Game", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2014.
“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
“I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?”
“It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”

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