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smart matter singularity
Charles Stross Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
smart people scare
Chris Carter It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
smart giving people
Chris Christie I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.
smart thinking president
Chris Christie I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.
smart book humble
David Duchovny If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.
smart men thinking
David Brin If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..
smart successful self
David Brin Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
smart character mean
Benedict Cumberbatch If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.
mistake power order
Charles Caleb Colton It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
mistake greatness ignorant
Charles Caleb Colton True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Charles Caleb Colton Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Charles Caleb Colton Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
Charles Caleb Colton A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Charles Stross Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.
mistake ends chains
Charles Stross Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Charles Spurgeon Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
Charles Spurgeon A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
games two lawyer
Charles Dickens Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
games words-of-wisdom delight
Charles Dickens To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
games planning designer
Charles Stross I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
games play self
Alan Watts The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
games fire giving
Alan Watts Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
games boards vendetta
Alan Moore They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.
games goal able
Alan Green You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
games gambling casinos
Al Alvarez The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
games gambling cards
Al Alvarez Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.