"This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks."

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Source : Douglas Adams, Gareth Roberts (2012). “Doctor Who: Shada”, p.51, Random House

Gareth Roberts

#Book Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.”
“There is a number missing. I can see it.”
“Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.”
“What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.”
“Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.”
“Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.”

Source : "The Return of the Ultimate Music-Obsessive Comic, Phonogram". Interview with Tom Ewing, pitchfork.com. August 12, 2015.
“The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”

Source : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2000). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur”, p.154, Harvard Business Press
“Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.”

Source : Rita Dove (2016). “Collected Poems: 1974-2004”, p.187, W. W. Norton & Company

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