Esoteric Thought Experiments Quotes

#1. None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?

Austin Grossman

#2. It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Philip K. Dick

#3. Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

Max Lucado

#4. Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It's not an accident that successful people read more books. Symptoms

Seth Godin

#5. In the back of my mind, my mother's often-recited warning comes to me: 'Never trust a man who can dance.

E.L. James

#6. Marriage is an excercise in learning our flaws everyday

Siddharth Katragadda

#7. Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like ...

Kathleen Hanna

#8. Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles De Gaulle

#9. I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.

Gene Roddenberry

#10. I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'

Tyra Banks

#11. The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Lillian Hellman

#12. I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.

Bradley Cooper

#13. After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

Barbara Deming