Purva Thakre > Purva's Quotes

“Partly owing to Cavendish's great wealth, his preference for solitude was often confused with arrogance, selfishness, or disdain. A fellow scientist once described him as "the coldest and most indifferent of mortals", while others characterized him as insensitive, blind to the emotions of others, or mean. But he was not a nasty or vindictive man; he simply had no idea how to conduct himself in public.”
― Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

“As he navigates to Twitter he has that strange sensation of walking into a house where a huge argument has been raging but the newcomer has not fully understood the dynamics.”
― Charles Beaumont, A Spy Alone

“And then there was the routine, the mind-numbing routine. It was the castration of thought, the daily grind of an office worker who drooled at the clock, punched out, watched TV until sleep overtook him, slapped an alarm three times, did it again.”
― Hugh Howey, Shift

“It is the law of Inverse Relevance: the less you intend to do about something, the more you have to keep talking about it.”
― Jonathan Lynn, The Complete Yes Minister