Nerdification Quotes

#1. The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

Harlan Coben

#4. We who believe in Divine Providence, in life after death, in salvation and resurrection; we, of all people, when faced with catastrophe, must go on with courage, faith, and hope.

Benedict Groeschel

#5. I know human beings are made up of cells, but I'm convinced my father was made up of negativity.

Kim Holden

#6. He had found the secret of keeping for ever on the run the fundamental imbecility of mankind; he had the secret of life, that confounded dying man, and he made himself master of every moment of our existence.

Joseph Conrad

#7. One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

Philip Yancey

#9. Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Christopher Lasch

#10. The skills of becoming happy turn out to be almost entirely different from the skills of not being sad, not being anxious, or not being angry.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#11. Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some ... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.

Rick Perry

#12. Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

Garry Kasparov

#13. If people have simple solutions to the situation on the border, it's not a solution.

Sylvia Longmire

#14. It takes women to bring men to their senses

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#15. Is it colour?'
'Oh yes.'
'You don't let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.

Christopher Brookmyre