"You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb."

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Source : Frederik Pohl (1975). “The best of Frederik Pohl”, Sidgwick & Jackson

Frederik Pohl

#Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Curves Quotes

“What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.”
“If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'”
“I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.”
“The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.”
“These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.”
“Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.”
“It's a hard job to get the camera to see it like you see it. Sometimes you have it just the way you want it, and then you look in the camera and you don't have the balance. The main thing is to get the camera to see it the way you see it.”
“I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.”

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