"What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.”
“I would like to understand things better, but I donâ€™t want to understand them perfectly.”
“Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.”
“Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
“I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.”
“I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.”
“God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.”
“Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2015). “Symmetry”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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