Kurzweil 3000 Quotes

#1. It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

Felix Frankfurter

#2. We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Christopher McDougall

#3. Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

John Waters

#4. The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.

Robert Aris Willmott

#5. It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

Karl Kraus

#6. I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Jonathan Lethem

#7. But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch
a small mixture of reproach with a great deal of kindness

Jane Austen