"Space is about 100 kilometers away. Thatâ€™s far awayâ€”I wouldnâ€™t want to climb a ladder to get thereâ€”but it isnâ€™t that far away. If youâ€™re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea."

-- Randall Munroe

#Japan Quotes #Sea Quotes #Sri Lanka Quotes

“When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.”
“My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.”
“The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.”
“We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.”
“Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.”
“Facebook is the novel we are all writing”

Source : Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.155, Canongate Books
“I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a kind of pathetic occupation, but I like it, even though I question it.”
“I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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