"At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge."

-- Alastair Reynolds

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“You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.”
“I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.”
“One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.”
“The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.”
“I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.”

Source : Edward Teller (1987). “Better a shield than a sword: perspectives on defense and technology”, Free Pr
“Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.”
“You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”
“A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.”

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