"I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end."

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Source : Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

Rudy Rucker

#Thinking Quotes #Dry Quotes #Dead Ends Quotes

“Many say that DOS is the dark side [from Star Wars], but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less likely to find the one way to destroy your incredibly powerful machine, and more likely to make upper management choke.”
“Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.”
“The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.”

Source : Nissim Ezekiel (1976). “Hymns in darkness”
“Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.”
“you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for”
“When he didn't answer, she didn't know if it was because he couldn't or if he was back to not talking to her. Back to pushing her out of his life. Men! Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand, when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?”
“The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.”

Source : Elspeth Huxley (2000). “The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood”, p.264, Penguin
“Hey, I work one full hour a day!”

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