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  • #1
    A.R. Merrydew
    “Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’
         ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed.
         ‘Raymond?’ Burt said incredulously.
         ‘I had to give him a name, didn’t I?”
    A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

  • #2
    Ajay Agrawal
    “Before machine learning, multivariate regression provided an efficient way to condition on multiple things, without the need to calculate dozens, hundreds, or thousands of conditional averages. Regression takes the data and tries to find the result that minimizes prediction mistakes, maximizing what is called “goodness of fit.”
    Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

  • #3
    “Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
    that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
    through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
    to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
    know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
    Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

  • #4
    Karl Braungart
    “Aha, Yury, I wonder if they are getting more US military. I am very anxious to get the recording. We want to know what is taking place between these Americans and Iraqis.”
    Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

  • #5
    Claudia   Clark
    “In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
    Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

  • #6
    T. Rafael Cimino
    “The audience may forget a plot, the witty dialog or the special effects but they’ll always remember how a film made them feel.”
    T. Rafael Cimino

  • #7
    Thomas Mann
    “For he used to say...that knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.”
    Thomas Mann

  • #8
    Franz Kafka
    “So then you’re free?’
    ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”
    Franz Kafka, Amerika

  • #9
    Terry Goodkind
    “Deserve Victory”
    Terry Goodkind

  • #10
    Tim O'Brien
    “A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
    Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
    tags: war

  • #11
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I missed you,” he said quietly, his gaze darting between her mouth and eyes. “When I was in
    Wendlyn. I lied when I said I didn’t. From the moment you left, I missed you so much I went out of my
    mind. I was glad for the excuse to track Lorcan here, just to see you again. And tonight, when he had
    that knife at your throat …” The warmth of his callused finger bloomed through her as he traced a path
    over the cut on her neck. “I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only
    an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us … I would find you. I don’t care how many
    rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you
    again. Always.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows



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