Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961), p.8
Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961), p.8
Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer
Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
“There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.”
Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris
Il n'est pas de plaisir plus doux que de surprendre un homme en lui donnant plus qu'il n'espère. <br class="br">XXVIII: "La Fausse Monnaie" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_XXVIII._La_Fausse_Monnaie <br class="br">Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
“I hope there will be no more surprises.”
Lixion Avila (1950) American meteorologist
On Hurricane Kyle in 2002 http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2002/dis/al122002.discus.089.html
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”
Julia Glass (1956) Novelist, journalist, editor
Source: I See You Everywhere