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“You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.”

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Christopher Langan

Christopher Langan, born in 1952, is a mysterious American figure. He is known for his exceptionally high IQ scores, but little is known about his career and personal life. more

“Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?”

Knows Want Shows Choices Three Games Given Behinds Doors Car Picks Advantage Host Goats Game Shows

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because it is the principal means by which content in every language can be represented in a form that can be processed by software. As Unicode extends its coverage of the world’s languages, it helps Google accomplish its mission.”

World Mean Play Helping Form Language Effort Roles Information Accomplish Missions Objectives Software Principal Google Organize Coverage

Author:Vinton Cerf

“I primarily buy art to show it off.”

Art Shows

Author:Charles Saatchi

“Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.”

People Trying Art Artist Interesting Majority Curiosity Work Out Contemporary Contemporary Art

Author:Charles Saatchi

“The real things are apt to be deviant.”

Real Real Things Deviants

Book:The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.”

Spirit Addiction Sickness

Book:The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.”

Writing I Can Written

Book:The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.”

World Water Rooms Powerful Sea Logic Lays Bones Swim Frightened Mechanism Chill Irrationality

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.”

World Individual Ocean Illusion Gains Terror

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.”

Firsts Voice Natural Style Initials Simplify Manuscripts Good Authors

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

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