Quotes
Authors
David Levithan

"You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately."

-- David Levithan

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“Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.”
“There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.”
“As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.”
“We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.”

Source : Glenn Murcutt (2002). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2002: Presented to Glenn Marcus Murcutt”
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
“Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.”
“Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.”
“The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.”

Source : "Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter". Book by Alex Pentland, January 30, 2014.

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