"As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence."

-- Charles Krauthammer

#Lonely Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes

“The singularity has nothing to do with consciousness.”
“I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.”
“Wherever we look at the living biota â€¦ discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequentâ€¦The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.”
“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”
“The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.”

Source : "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
“The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market price is going to be a mathematical impact on the shale tax. But beyond that, it also concerns me because it also impacts the health of the industry.”

Source : Source: www.eriereader.com
“Well, I believe that "thinking" is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more? So writing about "thought" to me is like writing about a tree or anything else real.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.”

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