#tin

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke. ↗

— Tim Vine

#always #because #condense #confidence #getting

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#waiting #yearning #faith

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#day #drew #frequently #historical #i

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#contradictions #fascinating #human #human behavior #maddening

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#artificial #artificial intelligence #i #i am #intelligence

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#each #even #keeps #love #love is

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#bad days #click #days #despite #especially

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#did #else #everybody #everybody else #everything

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about. ↗

— Nana Visitor

#am #i #i am #i see #name

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God ↗

— Carter Conlon

#jesus #trusting-god #faith