"I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic."

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Source : "Lockpick Pornography". Book by Joey Comeau, 2005.

Joey Comeau

#Jobs Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Way Quotes

“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
“Remember. Or, failing that, invent.”
“Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God”
“The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.”
“The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.”

Source : "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 157), 1998.
“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”

Source : Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.311, Penguin
“It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.”
“War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.”

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