Questions
Judge a man by his questions, not his answers.
— Voltaire
Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
Trust the computer, the computer is your fiend.
— Unknown
Both destiny’s kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person’s basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can’t even hear because you’re in such a rush to or from something important you’ve tried to engineer.
— David Foster Wallace
Listen to that still, quite voice in the back of the mind. It might be your destiny trying to get your attention.