“I don’t think we’re doing a good job as a society deciding what things are really important to do.” Page said. “I think like we’re just not educating people in this kind of general way. You should have a pretty broad engineering and scientific background. You have some leadership training and a bit of MBA training or knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. I don’t think most people are doing that, and it’s a big problem. Engineers are usually trained in a very fixed area. When you’re able to think about all of these disciplines together, you kind of think differently and can dream of much crazier things and how they might work. I think that’s really an important thing for the world. That’s how we make progress.”
― Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition
― Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition
“Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into”
― Where Is God When It Hurts?
― Where Is God When It Hurts?
“She was very attentive. That was it. She knew how to handle a guy. She made you feel like it was okay to be a guy. To be yourself. This, it seems to me, is the most devastating weapon of all in a woman's arsenal. If you can encourage the man to be himself, to give you his character, his ways, then you know how to navigate him, and therefore, he will never be able to hide from you.”
― Diary of an Oxygen Thief
― Diary of an Oxygen Thief
“Why, though? I knew it didn’t make sense. I did love her in my own way. Very much. She was beautiful and fun and caring, but I was bored, so bored. I had to think of other girls to get a hard-on. I didn’t want to start the long arduous road to her orgasm, let alone mine. Afraid to touch her in case it was mistaken for an application for sex. So in order to feel something through the numbness, I decided to perpetrate on my soul and hers the equivalent of quenching cigarettes on my paralyzed limbs. My hope was that if I registered pain, it would be welcomed as a sign of life.”
― Diary of an Oxygen Thief
― Diary of an Oxygen Thief
“If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similiar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possinle of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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