#analog

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#rain

She stared down into her coffee, as if she had more to say, but the words had fallen into the mug and were now too soggy to use. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#funny #funny

Analogies are like lies. ↗

— Roman Payne

#lies #literary-criticism #literary-criticism

Penny: But, he turned out to be really sweet. Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface. Dr Horrible: And sometimes there’s a third even deeper level and that’s the same as the top surface one. Penny: Huh? Dr Horrible: Like with pie. ↗

— 'Dr Horrible' writers

#human-nature #humor #snark #humor

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#normally #notice #pervasive #prediction

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit. ↗

— David Archuleta

#inspiration #inspirational #simile #thoughts #inspirational

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog. ↗

— Les Paul

#because #completely #different #doing #here

There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#appreciate #audiences #because #each #find

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#administration #agreed #analogous #attention #due

If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BC, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#evolution #human-history #science #age