I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Mackenzie King

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

Plato

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men argue, nature acts.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps... loosen them up.

Orson Scott Card

But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it.

Ernest Hemingway

Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.I stare at him.I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.That's my girl.

Moira Young

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

Colin Hay

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Publilius Syrus

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Will Rogers

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Michel de Montaigne