"Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise."

-- Karl Schroeder

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“Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.”

Source : Connie Willis (2011). “The Doomsday Book”, p.326, Spectra
“When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.”
“I was inspired by movies like 'Jawbreaker'and 'Carrie' for the 'Break the Rules' video. I never went to prom when I was at school so this was kind of me living out my weird fantasy of what prom would be like in my head. I asked Rose McGowan to be in the video and I never ever thought she would say yes, but she did... so she came to prom too... And she trashed it. ;)”
“I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.”
“I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.”
“I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.”
“I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.”
“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.”

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