#up

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#difference #educated #educated people #facts #ignorant

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#america #babies #big #countries #eating

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#aware #brain #come #human #human brain

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#arid #coming #day #every #every day

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#golden #i #little #little bit #more

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#ghost #had #locked #locked up #most

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#ask #couple #i #i remember #instrumental

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#bin #come #fact #find #hands

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#amps #bollywood #corrupt #could #distribution

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different