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“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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Michael Crichton
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“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.”
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Michael Crichton,
The Lost World
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“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
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Andy Weir,
The Martian
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“Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.”
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Andy Weir,
The Martian
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#5
“It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
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Andy Weir,
The Martian
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#6
“The screen went black before I was out of the airlock. Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for “Liquid.” I guess it either froze or boiled off. Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
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Andy Weir,
The Martian
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#7
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
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Douglas Adams,
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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#8
“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
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Douglas Adams,
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
tags:
life
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#9
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
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Douglas Adams,
Mostly Harmless
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#10
“Going outside is highly overrated.”
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Ernest Cline,
Ready Player One
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821 likes
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#11
“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”
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Ernest Cline,
Ready Player One
tags:
research
686 likes
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#12
“Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.”
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Jack McDevitt,
Odyssey
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