Bretty always says....
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
On the wirehead's dilemma...
"If it was possible to become free of negative emotions by a riskless
implementation of an electrode - without impairing intelligence and
the critical mind - I would be the first patient."
- Dalai Lama (Society for Neuroscience Congress, Nov. 2005)
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
On a proper education...
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
-Eartha Kitt
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Thoughts on ministry and the minstry of thought....
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
-Robert Heinlein
On jealousy's strategy...
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
-Robert Heinlein
On creatives, crackpots and con-men...
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
- Robert Heinlein
On living life fully....
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
-Robert Heinlein
Friday, June 22, 2007
On the pretty colors...
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our
one duty is to furnish it well.
-Peter Ustinov
Monday, June 18, 2007
On literal non-violence....
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also
internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you
refuse to hate him.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
On reliable trades...
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.
- Robert Graves
On reliable trades...
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.
- Robert Graves
Friday, June 08, 2007
On editing sober...
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
- C. J. Cherryh
On where ideas come from...
If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you -- it will come out of that wall.
- Anton Chekhov
On where stories come from...
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
- Orson Scott Card
On dividends...
Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.
- Anthony Burgess
On tutorials...
Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
- Steven Brust
On writing plainly...
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
- Ben Bova
Monday, June 04, 2007
On faking it until you're making it....
Magic, in light of modern physics, quantum theory and probability theory is now approaching science. We hope that a result of this will be a synthesis so that science will become more magical and magic more scientific.
- William S. Burroughs
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