Sydney Ackmann > Sydney's Quotes

“The telegram was sealed – an old-fashioned touch, I thought, but then I’d never had a telegram before. I took my time opening it. I said nothing.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“Science Fiction, is an art form that paints a picture of the future.”
― A.R. Merrydew

“I heard another disembodied voice: you're going to release a daemon”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

“I believe the red stone was kept under lock and key in the dungeon far below Aldene Castle. I know that in 1507, when the Eldest visited Aldene, he was concerned about something dangerous that was held in Aldene’s dungeon.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

“The issue of reimbursement by payers is an important factor that should be discussed. Is it possible that if radiologists use AI to read scans, they’ll receive less reimbursement? Or to approach this from the other angle, if payers are reimbursing for the use of AI, will they pay radiologists less as a result? My discussions with insurance executives have shown that they don’t think this is likely. If the use of these technologies will improve patient outcomes and lead to fewer errors, there are benefits to them that will motivate executives to pay for them in addition to radiologists’ reading fees.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

“Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“يجب أن تفرق انك كلما علمت بمجريات الأمور مبكرا، تحسنت فرصتك في تحقيق ربح أعلى وخوض مخاطره أقل " وهذه فائدة الأصداقاء وذاك هو الذكاء المالي".”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

“Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.”
― John Irving

“I had reached the point, at which I was not afraid to die. This spirit made me a Freeman in fact, while I remained a slave in form,”
― Frederick Douglass, My bondaje and my freedom