Skilful Quotes

“I couldn’t make sense out of what I was seeing. There was a shiny metal arm about an inch thick with a joint in the middle and a knob on the end. The arm was knocking the knob against the window. The oddest thing was that the arm wasn’t connected to anything. It appeared to be floating by itself in midair!”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“He wasn’t being arrogant. It wasn’t self-confidence that a human would have because they had been successful in the past. GERI was simply certain he would be successful because he was what he was—a superlative intellect, perhaps the only one of his caliber.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“Eleanor, I bought the Simpson place because I’ve always wanted the forest on that land. I got more than I bargained for. Tuesday, I went out there to take a walk in the forest and I found something. That something has become as you say my ‘friend.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“You should be afraid. Death isn’t the worst that can happen to you. And yes, I would have killed you.”
― Christian Warren Freed, The Lazarus Men

“Why are you not having me take you there?” GERI asked. “I could have had you there in twenty minutes.” “I appreciate the offer, GERI. I don’t know what I’m getting into. I don’t want to have to explain to someone how I got to South Carolina so fast. I need to have this trip well documented.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“It takes persistent practice to be skilful in the act.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.”
― George Biddell Airy