Miles Nilsson > Miles's Quotes

“We’ve gone further in our convictions. We negate more!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“First of all, he’s still immature, a child, and not so much a coward as something like a sort of artist.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.”
― Neil Armstrong

“History is a sequence of random events and unpredictable choices, which is why the future is so difficult to foresee.”
― Neil Armstrong

“I can't hear it. But the 'a' is implied, so I'm happy if they just put it in parentheses. (1982)

I would hope that history would grant me leeway for dropping the syllable and understand that it was certainly intended, even if it was not said—although it might actually have been. (2008)”
― Neil Armstrong

“Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations.
Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here:
Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms;
Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations.
Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations."
- Ash”
― M. M. Kaye

“There are two things I do not believe in,” said Inspector Çelik, “jinn and coincidences.”
― Miles Nilsson Fowler, Murder in the Grand Bazaar: An Intellectual Thriller

“In French, Demir said, “Your knowing our destination will not change whether we arrive sooner or later.”
― Miles Nilsson Fowler, Murder in the Grand Bazaar: An Intellectual Thriller