Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Julius Kambarge Nyerere

A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.

Robert Kraft

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

Horatio Bottomley

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwab

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

Albert Einstein

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Cory Doctorow

So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Victor Hugo

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

Sloane Crosley

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel, recorded in Pirkei

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus