Albert Myburgh > Albert's Quotes

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.”
― Mark Twain

“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book”
― Sylvain Tesson, Dans les forêts de Sibérie

“mankind's most impressive achievement is that it has survived and intends to continue doing so.”
― Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“The God hypothesis, for example, allows you to have an unparallelled understanding of absolutely everything while knowing absolutely nothing.”
― Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.”
― Jack Vance, Emphyrio