“code could be written to solve the problems. Code could do anything. Code could save the world.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“Code could do anything. Code could save the world.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“knowledge is a true power in any society”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“They used a bazooka to shoot the Warrior Angel, it was spectacular ineffective.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“Science your way out of this.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“Universal law: data wants to be free.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“We all have a bad morning after at some point in our lives.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“Greetings, human. We come in peace. Take me to your leader so I may serve you.’
‘What?’
‘Fried or baked?’
‘Uh—?’
‘Serve, get it? That’s a first-contact joke.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from A Night Without Stars
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy. We had seen little men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to human nature. Therefore, we decreed that every man should thenceforth have equal liberty to find his own level. By this very decree we acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying, "Let the best man win, whoever he is." Let the best man win! That is America's word. That is true democracy. And true democracy and true aristocracy are one and the same thing”
― Owen Wister, quote from The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
“With Peter, she was laid bare; he extracted her from herself.”
― Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, quote from Red Riding Hood
“I don't always understand poetry!'
'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it...whenever.”
― Alan Bennett, quote from The History Boys
“He was constantly surprising me like that. I had thought I didn't like surprises, but I found I did when they came from him.”
― Malorie Blackman, quote from Checkmate
“- Am rămas multă vreme cu pistolul la tâmplă. Eram cu degetul pe trăgaci. Chiar apăsam puţin ; dar nu destul de puternic. Îmi spuneam : "Peste o clipă voi apăsa mai tare şi glonţul va porni." Simţeam răceala metalului şi îmi spuneam "Peste o clipă n-o să mai simt nimic. Dar înainte o să aud un zgomot îngrozitor..." Dă-ţi seama, atât de aproape de ureche !... Şi asta mai cu seamă m-a reţinut : frica de zgomot...
Ceea ce e absurd ; căci din moment ce mori... Da! dar după mine moartea e un fel de somn ; iar o detunăturą nu te adoarme, dimpotrivă, te trezeşte... Da, fără îndoială că de asta-mi era frică. Mi-era teamă că în loc să adorm o să mă trezesc brusc.”
― André Gide, quote from The Counterfeiters
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