#wards

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.' ↗

— Buddy Guy

#blues #came #checking #couple #gave

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#actual #ai #any #being #being there

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#always #backwards #being #being nice #bending

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#failure #intense #more #more and more #penalty

Reflection makes men cowards. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#makes #men #reflection

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#authority #avoidance #figure #habit #home

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #like #no reason #reason #things

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#consistent #double #freedom #goal #logical

But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public. ↗

— John Hutton

#challenge #challenges #confidence #create #economy

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#only #punishments #rewards