"I burned too bright. I saw too much."

-- Marianne de Pierres

#Too Much Quotes #Saws Quotes #Burned Quotes

“I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.34, Macmillan
“There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.”
“I did dance music for a short period of time but I felt like the fruit for me was in the outer dance world so I stopped doing overt techno and I think, in terms of rhythm, I enjoy things that feel like they're falling off, like they're just barely holding on.”
“Do your best, and be a little better than you are.”
“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”

Source : "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 2, Ch. 173, c. 440 BC.
“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.”
“When it was time to talk about Warcraft we took our time, we knew what the story was going to be, we had a field general in Duncan Jones. Same thing with Godzilla, we kind of measured twice, cut once.”
“Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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