#arc

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#allow #being #constructed #databases #different

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#building #counters #doing #each #experiment

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#anarchism #capitalism #freedom #freedom

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#curious #good #good book #instructive #language

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#indifference #into #mind #narcotic

Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can. -Captain Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#explosives #humour #mercenaries #sarcasm #money

No. Absolutely not.” “Simon,” she said. “It’s a perfectly fine plan.” “The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?” “Yes.” “No,” he said. “No, it isn’t.” Clary sat back. “You don’t just get to say no.” “This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.” “Simon—” Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. “Let me introduce you to my good friend No. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#sarcasim #communication

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#invaluable #research #tool

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping. ↗

— Kate Fox

#between #difference #found #little #little difference

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#age #began #distorted #early #early age