"Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“The more you ride the bike, the better it gets, and the more you know how to ride it.”

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“You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.”
“Some things you can shake off, some things dig deeper than soccer.”
“Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.”
“I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.”
“You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”
“You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.”
“An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.”

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