"It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button."

-- John Brunner

#Technology Quotes #Buttons Quotes

“A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”
“I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.”

Source : Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”
“Actions have consequences.”
“We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.”
“We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.”

Source : Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”
“It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.”

Source : "Caterina Fake: How To Avoid The Pressure Of The Startup 'Sophomore Slump'". www.businessinsider.com. May 20, 2011.
“I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.”

Source : Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com
“They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.”

You may also like:

A. E. van Vogt
Author
Alfred Bester
Author
Brian Aldiss
Film writer
Clifford D. Simak
Writer
Frederik Pohl
Writer
James Blish
Author
Poul Anderson
Author
Robert Silverberg
Author
Samuel R. Delany
Author