Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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

Vernor Vinge

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

J.K. Rowling

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

Lee Iacocca

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Thomas Carlyle

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Justice is incidental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoover

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Edith Summerskill

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

Abbas Kiarostami

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

Jodi Picoult

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.

Charles Dickens

My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Ray Bradbury

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Rick Ross