Ousterhout 2013 Quotes

#1. As astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to fall out.

Massimo Pigliucci

#2. How shall we live in order to be happy? Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself - and then to follow where your answer leads you - will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.

Brian Tracy

#3. Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and you recognize their smell.

Blake Lively

#4. Religion neither convinced nor moved him.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

Harry Mathews

#6. There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Augustus Hare

#7. The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of the tree is a dark, shimmery red in color, like old claret. The wood has a lemony scent and is extremely resistant to rot.

Richard Preston