“It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.”
Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon
Source: Keeping the Moon
As quoted in Freedom in the World: Political Rights & Civil Liberties, 1990-1991 https://web.archive.org/web/20180917224837/https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/Freedom_in_the_World_1990-1991_complete_book.pdf (1991), New York: Freedom House, p. 16 <br class="br">1990s
“It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.”
Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon
Source: Keeping the Moon
“Science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing.”
Alvaro De Rujula (1944)
Alvaro De Rujula, quoted in "Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XbKZwXK-3c; this quote can be heard at approximately 3:55 to 4:15 in the video. It is important to note, it could be taken out of context. It implies that science is what we use when we do not know the answer to something.
“As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“We do what we're told,
Told to do.”
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
We Do What We're Told
Song lyrics, So (1986)
“Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.”
Theo de Raadt (1968) systems software engineer
Quoted in [Is Linux For Losers?, Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinfrastructure/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html, Lyons, Daniel, 2005-06-16, 2007-01-10]
“What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.”
Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986) American educator and astronaut
"Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986" in TIME magazine (10 February 1986) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960597,00.html
“It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.”
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Tiger Lily
“We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Time Untime