Flinging Pots Quotes

#1. They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies ... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

Aaron Koblin

#2. Doing testing with real users (in addition to internal quality testing) can help you avoid the serious embarrassment of a failed product.

Brian Lawley

#3. I like running. I am lucky for that; I don't find it hard. I like it as much as relaxing, actually. I am very focused on driving, and I don't like to party too much; that's just who I am.

Romain Grosjean

#4. Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.

James Joyce

#5. Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

John Vanbrugh

#6. The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.

Merab Mamardashvili

#7. With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

Robert Gottlieb

#8. Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Sherwood Boehlert

#9. The time - which, looking back, seems so idyllic - is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

Albert Einstein

#10. In his recent book Unexplainable, he said, "[God] wants to do the inconceivable, the uncommon, the unexpected, the remarkable, the incomprehensible, so that He - God - is the only explanation for what occurs in our lives."3

James MacDonald