2020 Happenings Quotes

#1. Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

Voltaire

#2. As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.

Matt Blaze

#3. One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

James Callis

#4. You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

Ricky Gervais

#5. The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Alfred De Musset

#6. Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink ...

Honore De Balzac