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“What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!”
― Shandy L. Kurth

“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
― George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”
― Gregory Bateson

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that “approval voting” allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability.8 Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as he wishes.”
― Avinash Dixit, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.' In other words, love is a dominant strategy.”
― Avinash K. Dixit, Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.”
― Marcus du Sautoy

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

“In Technology, whatever can be done will be done”
― Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
― Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to be earned in increments of fitness can now be had from pointless introspection. Aesthetics rise unbidden from a trillion dopamine receptors, and the system moves beyond modeling the organism. It begins to model the very process of modeling. It consumes evermore computational resources, bogs itself down with endless recursion and irrelevant simulations. Like the parasitic DNA that accretes in every natural genome, it persists and proliferates and produces nothing but itself. Metaprocesses bloom like cancer, and awaken, and call themselves I.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
― Steve Jobs

“Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.”
― Greg Egan, Oceanic

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
― Milton Friedman

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur

“Genius is eternal patience. ”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates