"It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do."

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Source : Charles Yu (2012). “Sorry Please Thank You: Stories”, p.42, Vintage

Charles Yu

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“She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.”
“Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then the opposite must also be the case. We can take comfort in the fact that our faults will be invisible to those who love us. The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.”
“Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.”
“All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.”
“To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of such machines may eventually be evolved: one, which may be termed the soaring type, and which will carry but a single operator, and another, likely to be developed somewhat later, which may be termed the journeying type, to carry several passengers, and to be provided with a motor.”

Source : Octave Chanute (1894). “Progress in Flying Machines”
“Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.”
“Yogi Bear was a real moment in my life. Post-Yogi Bear: don't drink as much. Pre-Yogi Bear: like to drink much.”

Source : "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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