…women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
…or perhaps it was only that the desire of life moves in cycles was returning – any sort of life.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
One had to begin with a “simplification and reduction of the results of previous investigations to a form in which the mind can grasp them.”
– James Clerk Maxwell, found in Tor Norretranders’ The User Illusion
Information is a measure of randomness because randomness is a measure of disorder: something that is difficult to describe.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace not in that ridiculous fashion.
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Every thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
I have said good-bye to people for greater distances and times, and, please God, I mean to see them yet again.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes