"Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird."

-- China Mieville

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“There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If the race is won by our tools, then systems will eventually become easier to use and more reliable. If not, they will continue to become harder to use and less reliable for all but a relatively small set of common tasks. Given how hard thinking is, if those intellectual tools are to succeed, they will have to substitute calculation for thought.”
“All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.38, BoD – Books on Demand
“Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.”

Source : Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee
“To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.”
“If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.”

Source : Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.172, WaterBrook
“Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

Source : "Equality" by Voltaire, 1764.
“Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.”

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