"We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it."

-- Alan Kay

“People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away - in search of some location where we do feel at ease. While we're on this search, it doesn't occur to us to consider how or where we're going to end up. We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.”

Source : Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, Hachette UK
“I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.”
“On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.”

Source : Larry Correia (2015). “Monster Hunter International, Second Edition”, p.6, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“My boss at Christmas was a lot of fun: "I want you to look in your pay envelopes and you'll know that I keep the Christmas spirit around here. Because in each and every envelope you'll find ... snow."”
“I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.”

Source : Interview With Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 1, 2007.
“You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.”
“Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.”
“A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.”

Source : June Masters Bacher (1979). “Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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