Jeff Lee

“Brute force will get you bad answers, lies, misdirection, or worse yet, will get you the answer the prisoner thinks you want to hear. He will say anything to stop the pain.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“I have voted in the past. My first vote as a young man was for Jimmy Carter. In time, I came to see that vote as further evidence that the thing I call my common sense is an illusion. (Carter was a good role model but not one of our most effective presidents. He served one term.) As I got older, and more aware of my mental limitations, I came to understand that my vote adds nothing to the quality of the outcome. As far as I can tell, no one else adds intelligence to the election outcome either, but most voters think they do. And that illusion is necessary to support the government. It gives the voters a sense of empowerment and buy-in. That creates national stability. The democracy illusion is probably one of the most beneficial hallucinations humankind has ever concocted. If you think democracy works, and you act as if it works, it does work.”
― Scott Adams, Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

“立虹與她坐下喝杯茶，他說：「這脫歐事件，真是沒完沒了，對市面影響甚大。」

歌詩瑪輕輕說：「分手，總是兩敗俱傷，但是，這是逃命，又好過死在困境。」”
― 亦舒, 可安歇的水邊

“一個人的辭世，如果叫旁人都鬆口氣，那人，也就很失敗。”
― 亦舒, 可安歇的水邊