# Quotes

## Stephen King

*His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance.* - Salems Lot

*Alone. Yes, thats the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym....* - Salems Lot

## Frank Herbert

*Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you*

*And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life — we went soft, we lost our edge.*

*Hope clouds observation.*

*It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.*

*To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.*

*Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.*

*Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock.*

*And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation."*

*Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.*

*Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.*

## Vladamir Zworykin

*One cannot stumble on an idea unless one is running.* 

***Turing's Cathedral p. 67***

## Alan Watts

*I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.*