"To be able to forget means sanity."

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Source : Jack London (2014). “Jack London's Science Fiction (Deluxe Annotated)”, p.474

Jack London

#Mean Quotes #Able Quotes #Forget Quotes

“Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.”
“The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.”
“I do not like Melbourne in its present state.”

Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.20, London : R. Bentley
“You know, if youâ€™re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good youâ€™re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think thatâ€™s fundamentally wrong.”
“Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.”
“If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.”
“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”
“Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.”

Source : "Seth Lloyd on Quantum Computing" by Scott Dewing, blog.insidethebox.org, September 23, 2011.

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