Rudy Rucker Quotes

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

Rudy Rucker

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GoodThinkPresentYouBangBooks

I started out in the 1940s, singing around the clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I grew up. There was a woman in showbusiness, a contortion dancer called Estelle 'Caldonia' Young - she was named after the song Caledonia Caledonia.

Jimmy Scott

WomanSingingSongYoungSheOut

I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.

Joe Wright

LoveOpportunityWorldUnderstanding

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Max Lucado

Doer

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

Steven Van Zandt

WorkMePictureBig PictureNeed

Authors can get an attitude of us-against-them when it comes to publishers, but learning how authors and editors can work together taught me to look at my work in a different way and to make that work as solid as possible before it ever goes to the publisher.

Tracie Peterson

WorkLearningAttitudeTogetherMe

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone.

Roger Penrose

AloneMathematicsProblemsYouCome

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

Robert Vaughn

GoodTodayTimeCutOurVery

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

Jonathan Nolan

GoodMindHumanStorageFragile

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus

MenNothingJudgmentsPedantic

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Clive Thompson

BirthdayBaseballSpaceYouNewOut

'The New York Times' is inherent in what we are, but not worn as 'what we are'; it's important and crucial to all of us, but not something that was drilled in, in any specific ways.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

New YorkNewImportantSomethingUs

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

Paul Westerberg

LovePeopleSongFallCompanyUp

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