"But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting."

-- Douglas Adams

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes

“Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression”
“Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.”
“I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.”
“I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.”
“The mistake that people made around 2000 with the emergence of the web was that they thought that people would not read long-form on a screen. Following from that idea, they quit doing long-form on screens. It got shorter and shorter, and then came cats toying with flowers and all of those clichÃ©s, but it was wrong. People will read long-form on a device if they want to read long-form.”
“To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.”

Source : 1982 Addition to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride.
“Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?â€ â€œAre you asking me for it?â€ â€œIf I were, would you give it to me?”
“There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.”

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