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“The phono-lecturer began the description of the recently invented musicometer. “… By merely rotating this handle anyone is enabled to produce about three sonatas per hour. What difficulties our predecessors had in making music! They were able to compose only by bringing themselves to attacks of inspiration, an extinct form of epilepsy.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Back to the soil," said Clousarr in a stifled voice. "That's simple, isn't it?"

"It's simple to say," said Baley. "But it isn't simple to do. How's the soil going to feed eight billions?”
― Isaac Asimov, Bóvedas de acero

“When people quit on time, it will usually feel like they are quitting too early, because it will be long before they experience the choice as a close call.”
― Annie Duke, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away