“Here is where the predictions failed: We didn't take Cargo Cult mentality into account: "if somebody has something I don't, he must have stolen it."
We didn't understand how good we could get at communication — when you have something that someone else doesn't, the whole damn planet knows it.”

— Larry Niven

Space.com interview (2000)

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Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: Sammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway

“If we take everything into account — not only what the ancients knew, but all of what we know today that they didn't know — then I think that we must frankly admit that we do not know.”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

The Value of Science (1955)

“We worked furiously (to realise our goals). Because we didn't have fear, we could do something drastic.”

Masaru Ibuka (1908–1997) Japanese businessman

Masaru Ibuka cited in: Ashley Goldsworthy (2009), Leadership in Action. p. 52

“On ‘Shrek’ we didn't try to figure out how to make adolescents laugh. You have to use yourself as the best judge and use your own instincts. We figured if we laughed at it, chances are good someone else would too.”

Vicky Jenson (1960) American animator

Quoted by Hillary Atkin in " Vicky Jenson: Filmmaker http://variety.com/2001/biz/news/vicky-jenson-1117855807/", Variety (November 14, 2001).

“It may seem sometimes that the whole world is against me and the reason I have failed in life is because of fate—that I was destined to fail, and there was nothing I could have done. But that's not true. There was plenty I could have done. Why didn't I do something?”

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

March 15
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)

“Something has to make you run
I don't know why I didn't come”

Norah Jones (1979) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

"Don't Know Why", Come Away with Me (2002)
Song lyrics

“[W]e live... in the pockets of reducibility. ...I should have realized [that] very many years ago, but didn't... [I]t could very well be that everything about the world is computationally irreducible and completely unpredictable, but... in our experience of the world there is at least some amount of prediction we can make. ...[T]hat's because we have ...chosen a slice of ...how to think about the universe, in which we can... sample a certain amount of computational reducibility, and that's... where we exist. ...It may not be the whole story about how the universe is, but it is that part of the universe that we care about and ...operate in. ...In science, that's been ...a very special case ...science has chosen to talk a lot about places where there is this computational reducibility... The motion of the planets can be ...predicted. The... weather is much harder to predict. ...[S]cience has tended to concentrate itself on places where its methods have allowed successful prediction.”

Stephen Wolfram (1959) British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physicist, writer and businessman

Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe (Sep 15, 2020)

“[When people] say ‘let's do something about it’, they mean ‘let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.’ And that somebody is invariably you.”

Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker

Source: Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980), p. 396, “Freedom is Better,” Plain Talk, (November 1949)

“Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding… that's where things get sticky.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“As I went down to my car, [Peter Randall] said, "If you don't want to get involved I'll understand" I looked back at him. "You know damn well I'd have no choice." "I didn't," he said. "But I was hoping."”

Michael Crichton book A Case of Need

A Case of Need (1968)

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