"Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff."

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Source : Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.137, Booklassic

Cory Doctorow

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world.”
“People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really annoying . . . (My style is) high-class hooker. I dress for myself. Clearly, it's provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable is because I'm 17, then that person's a scumbag because it shouldn't matter.”
“Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.”
“In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.”
“Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.”

Source : Greg Bear (2014). “Eon”, p.131, Open Road Media
“I like someone I can have fun with and who can be more laid-back than I am, because it calms me down.”
“Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.”
“The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.”

Source : Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.118, CUA Press

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