"Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts."

-- Rudy Rucker

#Shortcuts Quotes #Findings Quotes

“I am not strong on perfection.”
“... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.”
“I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.”
“Mondays are just like Sam from Clarissa Explains it All. They just show up through the damn window whenever the hell they feel like it.”
“The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.”
“Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.”
“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”

Source : Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.239, PublicAffairs

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