quotes

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. -- F. Kafka

If you're the smartest guy in the room, you're in the wrong room.

"They never liked us, did they?"
"Gods don't 'like'. They love and they hate and they ignore."
--Stheno and Euryale, in SANDMAN #61: "The Kindly Ones:5"

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
--Isak Dinesen

If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.

Montemerlo's Law [of spacecraft design]: Don't do nuthin' dumb.
--Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
-- James Baldwin

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
--Vladimir Nabokov

"Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. We can do just about anything you can imagine to rats. And closing your eyes and refusing to think about this won't make it go away. That is cyberpunk."
--Bruce Sterling

"The key to strategy...is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory."
--Cavilo, The Vor Game