Top 100 Quotes About Simsion
#1. The great thing about homo sapiens is that we've got a brain that can override our instincts. If we want it to.
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#2. Time has been redefined. Previous rules no longer apply. Alcohol is hereby declared mandatory in the Rosie Time Zone.
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#3. We're scientists," I reminded him. "We shouldn't be defeated by problems. If we think hard enough, a solution will present itself.
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#4. Time's up. Excellent work. All the rational solutions came from the aspies. Everyone else was incapacitated by emotion.
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#5. Feel! Feel, feel, feel! Feelings were disrupting my sense of well-being.
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#6. I didn't have years. But I am a quick learner and was in human-sponge mode. I demonstrated.
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#7. Whatever behavior modifications you require from me are a trivial price to pay for have you as my partner
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#8. Height, weight and body mass index.' Gene was skimming ahead. 'Can't you do the calculation yourself?' 'That's the purpose of the question,' I said. 'Checking they can do basic arithmetic. I don't want a partner who's mathematically illiterate.
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#9. Hate causes distress, potentially leading to mental and physical health problems. Adolescents
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#10. Since I had never been so sexually attracted to a woman before, I was suddenly compelled to examine her ears.
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#11. I became aware of applause. It seemed natural. I had been living in the world of romantic comedy and this was the final scene. But it was real. The entire University Club dining room had been watching. I decided to complete the story according to tradition and kissed Rosie.
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#12. I need a minute to think, she said. I automatically started the timer on my watch. Suddenly Rosie started laughing.
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#13. I could have argued that her wanting to do something for me meant she was ultimately acting in her own interests, but it might provoke more of the 'don't fuck with me' behaviour.
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#14. Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.
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#15. I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others' emotions and inability to experience their own.
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#16. My room was only eleven floors above Rosie's, so I walked up the stairs.
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#17. He knew me well enough to know that once an emotion was identified,
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#19. In marriage reason frequently had to take second place to Harmony
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#20. Rosie and I were on our way to New York, where being weird is acceptable.
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#21. It seems hardly possible to analyse such a complex situation involving deceit and supposition of another person's emotional response, and then prepare your own plausible lie, all while someone is waiting for you to reply to a question. Yet that is exactly what people expect you to be able to do.
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#22. Before sharing interesting information that has not been solicited, think carefully about whether it has the potential to cause distress.
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#23. We are genetically programmed to react to stimuli in our immediate vicinity. Responding to complex issues that we cannot perceive directly requires the application of reasoning, which is less powerful than instinct.
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#24. Why do people value others' time so little? Now we would have the inevitable small talk. I could have spent fifteen minutes at home practicing aikido.
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#25. I have never heard of the Wife Project. But I'm about to. In detail.'
'Of course,' I said. 'But we should time-share it with pizza-consumption and beer-drinking.'
'Of course,' said Rosie
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#26. On their deathbed, nobody ever wishes they'd spent more time at the office.
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#27. The restaurant in the Upper East Side was within walking distance, though Gene and Rosie seemed to struggle for the final twenty blocks. Both needed to work on their fitness. I
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#28. You're unbelievable,' said Rosie. 'Look at me when I'm talking.'
I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated.
'I know what you look like.
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#29. What are the symptoms of being fucked-up?' 'I've got crap in my life that I wish I hadn't. And I'm not good at dealing with it. Am I making sense?
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#30. I feel I've done the 10,000 hours you have to do to get good at something.
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#31. Fortunately I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.
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#32. I arrived at 7.04 p.m. only to find that the bar did not open until 9.00 p.m. Incredible. No wonder people make mistakes at work. Would it be full of surgeons and flight controllers, drinking until after midnight then working the next day?
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#34. Watch some kids, watch them play. You'll see they're just little adults, only they don't know all the rules and tricks yet.
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#35. What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.
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#36. I watched as she took a second sip, imagining the alcohol crossing the placental wall, damaging brain cells, reducing our unborn child from a future Einstein to a physicist who would fall just short of taking science to a new level.
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#37. How are you going to kiss a girl if you won't share her ice cream? p.203 The Rosie Project
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#38. I had become accustomed to being woken, and generally managed to fall asleep again within a few minutes. But the aggregate effect could not be ignored and I was forced to reschedule my bedtime to thirteen minutes earlier.
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#39. Used the precise speed indication on the GPS to set the cruise control to the exact speed limit, rather than relying on the artificially inflated figure provided by the speedometer.
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#40. There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in.
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#41. I accepted that I was wired differently than most people, or, more precisely, that my wiring was toward one end of a spectrum of different human configurations. My innate logical skills were significantly greater than my interpersonal skills.
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#42. I was wearing my bathroom-cleaning costume of shorts, surgical boots, and gloves but no shirt. "Wow." She stared at me for a few moments. "This is what martial arts training does, is it?" She appeared to be referring to my pectoral muscles.
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#43. we need to be vigilant that emotions do not cripple us.
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#44. So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.
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#45. It was obvious that Rosie was confused by emotions, and I respected her attempt to overcome them.
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#46. I took her in the standard jive hold that I had practised on the skeleton, and immediately felt the awkwardness, approaching revulsion, that I feel when forced into intimate contact with another human.
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#48. I have heard the word 'stunning' used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one.
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#49. I shook my head to test for a hangover but it seemed that my alcohol-processing enzymes had done their job adequately.
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#50. To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.
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#51. After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.
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#52. I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
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#54. You are the world's most perfect woman. All other women are irrelevant. Permanently. No Botox or implants will be required.
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#55. The Apricot Ice-cream Disaster had cost a whole evening of my life, compensated for only by the information about simulation algorithms.
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#56. There was a small risk that Rosie's father was a transsexual. I made a mental note to check the women for signs of male features and test any that appeared doubtful. Overall, however, the numbers looked promising.
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#57. I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' were probably not representative of humans in general.
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#58. I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she's a bit full of herself.
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#59. Rosie squeezed my hand very tightly, as though to earn some hand-holding credits,
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#60. It was only later that I realised that I had experienced extended close contact with another human without feeling uncomfortable. I attributed it to my concentration on correctly executing the dance steps.
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#61. You want a beer?" she said. A beer! At 3:01 a.m. Ridiculous. "Yes, please.
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#62. But I had concluded that being myself, with all my intrinsic flaws, was more important than having the thing I wanted most.
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#63. Another world, another life, proximate but inaccessible. The elusive . . . Sat-is-fac-tion.
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#64. Jesus addresses the angry mob who are stoning a prostitute: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." A stone flies through the air and hits the woman. Jesus turns around and says, "Sometimes you really piss me off, Mother.
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#65. Oh my God,' she said. 'I need a drink.' I was not sure why she was sharing this information with someone she had known for only forty-six minutes. I planned to consume some alcohol myself when I arrived home but saw no reason to inform Julie.
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#66. Hurtling back to town, in a red Porsche driven by a beautiful woman, with the song playing, I had the sense of standing on the brink of another world.
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#67. Question thirty-five: Do you eat kidneys? Correct answer is (c) occasionally. Testing for food problems. If you ask directly about food preferences, they say, 'I eat anything,' and then you discover they're vegetarian." I
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#68. You'd better not let me down," said Rosie. "I'm expecting constant craziness.
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#70. In the last eight weeks I had experienced two of the three best times of my adult life, assuming all visits to the Museum of Natural History were treated as one event. They had both been with Rosie. Was there a correlation? It was critical to find out.
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#71. Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway.
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#72. But it appeared that the motivation for the project was a newspaper article titled 'Research Proves Kids Need a Mom and a Dad.' Someone had written the word 'crap' in red beside the article. It was an excellent start. Scientists need to cultivate a suspicious attitude to research.
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#74. Take notice of your emotions as well as logic. Emotions have their own logic. And try to go with the flow.
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#75. The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability.
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#76. I was not concerned about the dancing - I was confident that I could draw on my experience from preparing for martial arts competitions, with the supplementary advantage of an optimum intake of alcohol, which for martial arts is not permitted.
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#77. Interestingly for me, modern rom coms have not always been funny - many of the iconic rom coms are more like light dramas with occasional comedic moments, often coming from secondary character.
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#79. And the pursuit of fun does not lead to overall contentment. Studies have shown this consistently.
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#80. Difficulties are inevitable," I said. "Major projects require persistence.
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#81. But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
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#82. Lost love belongs in a three-minute song, pullling back feelings from a time when they came unbidden, recalling the infatuation, the walking on sunshine that cannot last and the pain of its loss, whether through parting or the passage of time, reminding us that we are emotional beings
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#83. Did you get the cup?"
I held it up.
"Is it the right one?" she said.
I am not good at nonverbal communication, but I believe I managed to convey the fact that while I might be a petty thief, I do not make errors of observation.
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#84. Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.
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#85. Of course, love has no respect for questionnaires. As The Rosie Project tells us.
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#86. Even after rejection of articles that helpfully advertised their lack of a scientific basis by the use of words such as organic, holistic, and natural, I was left with a mass of data,
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#87. A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.
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#88. It would be unreasonable to give you credit for being incredibly beautiful.
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#89. This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content.
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#90. I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
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#91. I am well aware of my incompetence in predicting human reactions. But I would have been prepared to bet on the first word that Rosie would say when she received the information. I was correct by a factor of six. 'Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
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#92. Vegetarians and vegans can be incredibly annoying. Gene has a joke: How can you tell if someone is a vegan? Just wait ten minutes and they'll tell you.
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#93. I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.
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#94. I looked again at the nighttime view of the city - the view I had never seen before even though it had been there all the time.
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#95. Rationality was returning to deal with the mess that emotions had created.
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#96. I believe it is the duty of science, of humanity, to discover as much as we can. But I am a physical scientist, not a psychologist. The
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#97. I met Rosie at the airport. She remained uncomfortable about me purchasing her ticket, so I told her she could pay me back by selecting some Wife Project applicants for me to date.
'Fuck you,' she said.
It seemed we were friends again.
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#98. I never watch sports. Ever. The reasons are obvious - or should be to anyone who values their time.
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#99. I haven't changed my mind. That's the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it's totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there's no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.
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#100. I was not thirsty, but I was pleased to be offered alcohol.
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