"I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds. It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo."

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Cory Doctorow

#Running Quotes #Play Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“My daughter loves singing above all else.”
“If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.”

Source : "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.
“Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.”

Source : R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.”
“If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.”
“There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might assume such a thing as mythical as those beasts that guard the corners of the earth, but I have it on the finest authority, and have, indeed, from time to time, regarded it with my own eyes.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2012). “The Garden Intrigue: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.145, Penguin
“Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.”
“I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.”

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