"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment"

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Steve Albini

#Doubt Quotes #Reason Quotes #Conventional Wisdom Quotes

“I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to a fallout shelter in the basement. We'd sit on our butts on the ground next to the wall with a textbook over our heads and our knees sort of drawn up to our chest. I don't think they still do that. They're sort of sobering. You leave recess and come in for the apocalypse drill.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.”
“After you have a kid you're just so happy to be alive!”

Source : "Stowe Away". SPLICEDwire Interview, June 14, 1999.
“As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.”
“There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.”

Source : Christian Rudder (2014). “Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves”, p.60, Crown
“Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.”
“I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.”

Source : "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.
“You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.”

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