Megastructure Quotes

#1. As the shape of political geography and the architecture of planetary-scale computation as a whole, The Stack is an accidental megastructure, one that we are building both deliberately and unwittingly and is in turn building us in its own image.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#2. I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears.

Chris Hardwick

#3. I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look ... I fit in the natural action-hero role.

Jose Canseco

#4. Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones ... we can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.

Paul P. Enns

#5. The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.

E. J. Dionne

#6. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Katharine Hepburn

#7. If this was madness it was an entirely new kind of madness, as yet undocumented in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. She had nerdophrenia. She was dorkotic.

Lev Grossman

#8. The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#9. When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Billie Jean King

#10. All polishing is done by friction,

Mary Parker Follett

#11. Do what you LOVE to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again.

Mark Victor Hansen

#12. Sincere
that was the hell of it. From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a closer view, one saw the sincerity and it was as great as one's own. Perhaps Satan was the sincerest of the lot.

Walter M. Miller Jr.