"Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days."

-- Ellen DeGeneres

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“My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a cliff, we have two choices: to turn around and run, or to jump. I have learned over time to jump - and though it is scary, I know somewhere inside me that I will be caught.”
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”

Source : Robert Monroe (2014). “The Ultimate Journey”, p.205, Harmony
“In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.”
“I never really did a western western.”
“When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.”

Source : David Einhorn (2010). “Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons
“Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.”

Source : Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.695
“English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.”
“I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that......Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble.”

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