#all

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#humor #science #art

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#excellent #existing #good #good ideas #had

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. ↗

— Michael Faraday

#how #important #important thing #know #quietly

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#announce #any #back #deal #doing

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#bad #been #cheap #chips #christmas

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#conventional #exhibits #generally #incongruous #more

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy. ↗

— Frank Bruno

#go #guy #just #lonely #other

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid. ↗

— Anna Faris

#anymore #because #comedy #feel #given

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision. ↗

— Steven Brust

#allow #comes #course #decision #find

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously. ↗

— Anna Faris

#i #i do #like #movies #ones