"Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail."

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Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.34, Head of Zeus

Peter Watts

#Long Quotes #Details Quotes #Teeth Quotes

“You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.”
“What have you done when you have bested a fool?”

Source : Charles Portis (2010). “True Grit: A Novel”, p.84, The Overlook Press
“Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.”
“It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.”

Source : Donald Rumsfeld (2011). “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”, p.45, Penguin
“I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that. I don't show off or boast, and it's pointless to think I'm going to be any different.”
“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
“In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.”
“What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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