"I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup."

-- Spalding Gray

#New York Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vegetables Quotes

“An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.”

Source : "Wissenschaft und Symbol". Book by Hermann Friedmann, p. 472, 1949.
“As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.”
“Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”
“Wisdom is an artful methodâ€”a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.”
“Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.257, Hachette UK
“I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all.”
“I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.”
“In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.”

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