"I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

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“There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"”

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“We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.”
“Thou shalt not take anything on faith”
“I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.”
“I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don't know what they might be until you actually do the run. That's one of my major reasons for pushing out the front door as often as I do-the adventure of it all.”
“The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?”
“Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.”

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