#thou

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. ↗

— Nate Silver

#curve #develop #games #kind #learning

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though. ↗

— Nate Silver

#anymore #baseball #because #fantasy #feel

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. ↗

— Nate Silver

#how #information #learning #means #more

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. ↗

— Ron Silver

#careers #damage #fear #public #retribution

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy. ↗

— Ron Silver

#easy #getting #going #i #jobs

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#cult #get #get married #i #like

I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#hate #husband #i #like #surprised

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#because #eat #good #healthy #i

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women. ↗

— Dave Sim

#been #call #couple #even #evidence

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#emptiness #feature #had #happened #here