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“Fear kills more people than death.”
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“Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.”
Source : Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.311, MIT Press
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“I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.”
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“I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.”
Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.
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“It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.”
Source : Anthony Burgess (1998). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.24, A&C Black
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“Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.”
Source : Thomas Adams (1862). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.3
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“The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.”
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“Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.”