“My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.”

— Michael Marshall Smith

Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 5

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that yo…" by Michael Marshall Smith?

Michael Marshall Smith 26

British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer 1965

Ted Haggard (1956) American minister

KRDO http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=8556903, accessed June 26, 2008

“You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Prince

Source: Dark Prince

“My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren’t many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher

Predictible Fakers (January 2009) http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/predictible-fakers.html
Context: My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren’t many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.... It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.

“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.”

Frederik Pohl book Gateway

Gateway (1978)

“Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Sleeper (1973)

“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”

John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

Remark to a neighbor, quoted by John Lewis in Cosmopolitan (1908)

“And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

“I warned you then and I'm warning you now
If you mess with me you're playing with fire
Winds of change that are fanning the flames
Will carry you to your funeral pyre”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

The Ultimate Sin, written by Robert John Daisley, Ozzy Osbourne, John Osbourne, Jake Williams, Robert Daisley
Song lyrics, The Ultimate Sin (1986)

“Don't come into the music industry. It's almost inevitable that you'll psychologically be quite screwed up. Fame isn't a natural, human, behavioural thing. You get alienated. You're not really surrounded by truth.”

Katie Melua (1984) British singer-songwriter

[Bernard Perusse, A private path to fame, http://www.canada.com/cityguides/montreal/story.html?id=cb6fe4fc-01ef-4d0b-ad86-7ad091135e1b, The Gazette, canada.com, 2008-06-26]

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Michael Marshall Smith 26

Related quotes

Related topics