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»›Yes,‹ Mustapha Mond was saying, ›that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.‹«
From: Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

»Everyone's sitting in their little well, looking out and seeing their tiny circle of sky, and they think that's all out there that's relevant.«
Shravan Vasishth

»Even though his best days were gone, some of the girls in my class at school still liked Elvis. He would have asked their dads' permission for a date; The Beatles would be content to hold their hands, but Mick would have shared them with Keith. The Stones were what rock music was all about.«
From: Graham Forbes – Rock and Roll Mountains

»Lack of success at research is accompanied by the same feelings of inadequacy as sexual impotence and, like it, can be a self fulfilling prophecy.«
The Researcher's Bible, version of November 2004

»As much as the wheel is an extension of the foot, the computer is an extension of our nervous system, which exists by virtue of feedback or circuitry.«
From: Marshall McLuhan (1968) – War and Peace in the Global Village

»I've been injecting my little girl. ›What a lovely way to take drugs,‹ she says sweetly. She wants to try everything. I don't argue and I won't patronise her. Anyhow, she's a determined little blonde thing, and for her friends it's fashionably exciting. I can tell she's made up her mind to become an addict.«
From: Hanif Kureishi – The Tale of the Turd

»The liar knows and cares about the truth, but deliberately sets out to mislead; the truth-speaker knows the truth and is trying to give it to us; the bullshitter, meanwhile, does not care about the truth, and is simply trying to impress us.«
From: Ben Goldacre – Bad Science

»You can't find unconditional love in human beings. But with music, it's unconditional. It loves you back.«
Joss Stone in an interview in Performing Songwriter, volume 14, 100st issue