“I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!” IfsThinkingShouldGodTruthLyingKnownLaughingSunThousandOceanMouthsBrilliantTinyOpening Author:Hafez
“Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.” CompetitionConventionsBrutalWarfareThoroughGenevaGeneva Convention Author:Andy Grove
“Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.” Where You AreTelephonesCyberspace Author:William Gibson
“There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.” WellsMayViolenceMediaTerrorismTerroristCeaseRelatedManipulateGestalt Author:William Gibson
“Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.” MindStatesDreamProcessSleepEssentialsWakingNaps Author:William Gibson
“This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.” SunChangedDrivingTensionPerpetual Book:Distrust That Particular Flavor Source: Distrust That Particular Flavor
“Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.” FirstsDeceivingCheatConceit Author:George Zimmerman
“Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.” EarthPerfectSolitudeHighestSatisfactionEnjoyedLeisure Author:George Zimmerman
“The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.” FactsCertainUniverseVictoryUltimateFinalsComprehensive Author:Frank C. Lockwood