"To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

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“Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.”
“The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.”

Source : Ithiel De Sola Pool (1983). “Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment”, Ablex Pub
“It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.”
“If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.”
“When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.”
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”
“It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.”
“I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.”

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