#nets

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#along #came #course #day #expect

The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#compare #copied #could #current #different

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #characters #closer #different #each

I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#doctor #fridge #got #i #magazine

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#feel #invincible #life #lined #performances

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#already #change #favorite #minds #only

Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#amnesty #anchor #babies #benefits #country

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#beautiful #close #day #day to day #dirt

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#fact #had #i #important #important fact