"When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new."

-- Jeffrey Kluger

#Past Quotes #Culture Quotes #Saving Quotes

“Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.”
“A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.”
“Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.”
“If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can.”
“No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.”
“I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.”
“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.122, Penguin

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