Andreas Weinberger > Andreas's Quotes

“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
― Iain M. Banks

“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

“If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

“There was something comforting about having a vast hydrogen furnace burning millions of tons of material a second at the centre of a solar system. It was cheery.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”
― Iain M. Banks

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The difference between nations lay not in the technology itself but in the totality of the effort that brought that technology to life.”
― Amy Shira Teitel, Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
― Mark Twain

“An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. ”
― Ted Nelson

“Everything is deeply intertwingled.”
― Ted Nelson

“…schools as we know them appear designed at every level to sabotage the supposed goals of education.”
― Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines