Scott Westerfeld Quote

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.