"Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?"

-- Vernor Vinge

#Keys Quotes #Video Quotes #Legs Quotes

“Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”
“No place is a place until it has found its poet.”
“According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find `the truth for me`.”
“We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.”
“Love can sometimes achieve the impossible”
“Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.”
“Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.”
“Believe it or not, but even when Iâ€™m sleeping, Iâ€™m dreaming about meeting fans”

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