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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#how #imagine #nowadays #stupid #whole

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#hand #heads #i #like #look

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process. ↗

— Howard Gordon

#been #before #circuit #come #doing

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#advantages #constraints #equal #evolutionary #explaining

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#either #gives #great #headache #imagination