"We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Jonathan Nolan

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“Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.”
“The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.”
“This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”

Source : "The Unix Oral History Project". Interview with Michael S. Mahoney, www.princeton.edu.
“Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.”

Source : "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897
“If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.”
“After watching that, I gotta admit, I am awesome!”
“Putting a photo into your LinkedIn stream increases engagement up to 90%.”
“We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2004). “Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros”, p.1, Chelsea Green Publishing

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