#rat

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative. ↗

— Mike Curb

#davis #gray #gray davis #i #i remember

I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#am #big #broadcast #cable #cause

I was rather a fat little boy. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#fat #i #little #rather

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#consideration #follows #good #goodness #human

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. ↗

— David Deutsch

#be the first #between #collaboration #computation #distinctively

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment. ↗

— David Deutsch

#environment #every #generator #includes #possible

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#literature #magic #modernism #myth #surrealism

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from. ↗

— Timothy Dexter

#eating #hog #like #looking #man

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. ↗

— Joan Didion

#arrangement #because #early #eleven #hemingway