"You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes."

-- Bill Mollison

#Dog Quotes #Real Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”
“When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.”
“People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.”
“Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.”
“Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.”
“My only real fear was that I would not be able to surf again because I was concerned that I would not physically be able to do it. I knew that if I wasn't able to surf then my life would really change.”
“People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.”
“Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.”

Source : Senate Hearing 109-947 before Committee on Environment and Public Works, May 18, 2005.

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