Quotes - Marcin (mkarwin) (Jaworzno, Śląsk, Poland) Showing 1-30 of 208

#1

“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#2

“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: comedy, funny, interview, tragedy

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#3

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#4

“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

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#5

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

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#6

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

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#7

“I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.”
― Stanislaw Lem

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#8

“I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.”
― Stanisław Lem

tags: interview, science-fiction

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#9

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#10

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: forget, memory, mnemonic-help

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#11

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#12

“There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.”
― Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

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#13

“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

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#14

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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#15

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

2558 likes

#16

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson, Zero History

tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology

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#17

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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#18

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

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#19

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

13921 likes

#20

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#21

“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.”
― William Gibson, Burning Chrome

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#22

“Czy jeżeli ludożerca je nożem i widelcem - to postęp?”
― Stanisław Lem

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#23

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

tags: common-sense, perspective, philosophers

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#24

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: attributed-no-source

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#25

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#26

“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

tags: humor

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#27

“Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: exegesis, valis

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