"Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play."

“You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.”

“Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests Apple would have done. Or -- and this is far more plausible -- somehow the energy and excitement of the 10 million people who purchased iPhones has awakened their mind powers and caused the phones to bend.”

Source : "Here’s the real reason iPhones are bending" by Jeremy Olshan, www.marketwatch.com. September 24, 2014.

“How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!”

Source : Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”

“I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.”

“Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.”

“A waste is a nine-year-old boy playing catch with the roof of his garage who already understands that his existence makes for the perfect insult- gay. "You're so gay" a.k.a. stupid a.k.a. dumb a.k.a. wrong. Do you have any idea how gross it feels to hide inside the pile of lies it takes to make you, Sweet Angel, comfortable?”

“Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an intelligence explosion and the intelligence of man would be left behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man ever need make.”

Source : Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.20, OUP Oxford

“The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.”