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“When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
― Cory Doctorow

“Now what is "music"–a sequence of vibrations in the air, or a succession of emotional responses in the brain?”
― HOFSTADTER DOUGLAS, GODEL, ESCHER Y BACH

“So, in general how good are we at predicting how long things will take? In a review of research on prospective memory published in 2010,15 Roger Buehler from Wilfrid Laurier University and his colleagues in Canada looked at research asking individuals to estimate how long particular activities would take them. They found that people were generally optimistic in their estimates, tending to discount past failures to complete things on time, and generally underestimating how long tasks actually took to complete. In other words, we seem to believe that our future selves are going to be superheroes at doing things quickly – new you excels at doing things quickly, even if old you was slow. New you is efficient, old you was lazy.”
― Julia Shaw, The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory

“I needed seven hours of sleep. At least. I've always envied those who don't need much sleep. Those who wake up after five hours and are ready to preform at their best. They're the ones who really go far in life, I've heard.”
― Maja Lunde, Bienes historie

“We are nothing without passion.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“Without knowledge we are nothing. Without knowledge we are animals. After that I became more focused. I did not want to learn solely for the sake of learning, I wanted to learn to understand.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer