"I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather."

-- Daniel Suarez

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“Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.”
“If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.”
“An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.”
“Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.”

Source : "Victory! Voters Reject Tea Party Overreach, Protect American Freedoms" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
“The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John Swartzwelder's: 'They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?' It's a horrifying idea juxtaposed with something really banal-and yet there's a kind of logic to it. It's illuminating because it's kind of how Americans see things: Life's a big jumble, but somehow it leads to something I can consume. I love that.”
“Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.”

Source : Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.415, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.”

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