Seth Shostak Quotes

The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover.

Seth Shostak

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LifeQuietRingMatterNeverRight

My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

Jimmy Fallon

WorkComputersUsedGetStuffIBM

To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.

John Hay Whitney

EnoughMoreFairMustAny

It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.

Megan Smith

MoneySmartDoorYouEarlyWay

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

Amiri Baraka

PeopleMeYouKnowKindNatural

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

Spike Jonze

TogetherWritingStartFeelingTry

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

Tommy Shaw

AlwaysBigBeenSuckerChorus

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

CatsWiseQuietSameBecauseLike

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

Ron Johnson

SecurityWashingtonSocial Security

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

Mary Frann

FriendBestSchoolMeBest Friend

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.

Bonnie Hunt

WorkSchoolMeChanceThoughtGave

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

NatureGoodManEvilChooseWill

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

Sepp Blatter

RacismDiscriminationPlayOutside

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