Rachel (Sfogs)

“Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world doesn't have to be like the one you live in." At the first nationally recognized science fiction convention in China in 2007, Gaiman took a party official aside and said, "While not actually illegal, science fiction is regarded as dangerous and subversive in China. Why did you say yes to a science-fiction convention?"
The party official answered, "In China, we're really good at making things people bring to us, but we don't invent, we don't innovate." When Chinese party officials visited Google, Apple and Microsoft, they asked what the executives read as children. The official continued: "They all said, 'We read science fiction. The world doesn't have to be the way it is right now. We can change it.' " "That," said Gaiman, "is the big dangerous thing.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but is is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" —Frances Brown”
― Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon