"You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history"

-- Iain Banks

#Needs Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Ends Quotes

“His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.”
“I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.”
“When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.”
“Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.”
“The forest is peaceful, why arenâ€™t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the birdâ€™s song then let go. If you know nature, youâ€™ll know truth. If you know truth, youâ€™ll know nature.”
“People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .”
“Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.”

Source : Jeffrey Veen (1997). “Hot Wired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites”, Wired Books
“It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."”

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