"I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be."

-- Sylvia Plath

#Numbers Quotes #Mad Quotes #People Quotes

“I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is dubious?" He said, "Well, it's a torus." I don't know what he had in his mind as a mathematical background, because I don't think he got topology. Because, in other words, the Mobius strip didn't have angles in it.”
“It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”
“Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.”
“I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.”
“If you want to find guys with small penises, go to the Hummer dealership.”
“In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.”
“Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.”
“Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.”

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