"I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me."

-- Steve Earle

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes #Tolerance Quotes

“I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.”
“Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.”
“Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits”
“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1989). “The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans”
“With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.”
“I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.”
“I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.”
“Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another place] at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?”

Source : "A Quantum Leap in Computing". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. July 21, 2011.

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