#exit

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit. ↗

— John Cheever

#heading #i #i remember #remember #them

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me. ↗

— Juan Cole

#apparent #exit #exit strategy #expertise #extrapolate

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#complexity #cumulative #evolution #existence #explaining

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#complexity #consists #delicacy #evolution #formation

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#exit #fine #i #least #low

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. ↗

— Will Wright

#been #come #complexity #fascinated #i

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it. ↗

— Will Wright

#anything #bugs #complexities #fully #i

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#knowledge #perplexity

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ↗

— William Gibson

#city #clusters #complexity #computer #constellations