"The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive."

-- Larry Niven

#Giving Up Quotes #Looks Quotes #Constant Quotes

“I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.”
“Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the readerâ€™s attention from the plain truth.”
“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”
“My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.”
“Family isnâ€™t something thatâ€™s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. Theyâ€™re born, they die. Itâ€™s always evolving, turning into something else.”
“Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each otherâ€™s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love â€“ think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!”

Source : Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage
“Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.”

Source : "Seth Lloyd on Quantum Computing" by Scott Dewing, blog.insidethebox.org, September 23, 2011.

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