"I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent."

-- Benoit Mandelbrot

#Asking Questions Quotes #Hands Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.”
“People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.”
“Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.”
“I lost my job, well I didn't lose it, I know where it is, there's just some other guy doing it now.”
“Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.”
“Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?”
“His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.”

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