Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

With the right combination of money, power, intimidation, and coercion, he can get leaders to gradually work their way toward consenting to a global government, with himself at the helm.

It was a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy purchases girl to protect him. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy prays that girl won't let him die horribly as he puts his UFO-questing nose where various parties don't want it to be.

It never ceased to amaze him the power of the sex drive. No matter how intelligent and rational a person was otherwise, the sex drive was controlled by more primitive regions, and could turn the most brilliant man on Earth into an animal, flirting with disaster in pursuit of physical gratification, even when he knew in his rational mind that this was nothing but a trick played on him by his incorrigible limbic system.

the ocean continued to slam angrily into the cliff wall far below as if raging against the audacity of our barbaric species.

We had been trying for a hint of amusement, but were failing miserably. Apparently, dread wasn't an easy emotion to displace

Since the Mossad agent was using his newly acquired home as a military outpost, it was exactly what Quinn had expected. Barren. Undecorated and unlived in. But with enough televisions, computers, monitors, weapons, and electronics to supply a Walmart.

Better to be prepared and not need to be, than not be prepared and regret it.

Luck favors the prepared mind, Major Long," said Li, quoting Louis Pasteur.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." —Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher (1844-1900)

taken the full brunt of the FOAB explosion and shockwave.

minds had not only detected this subtle sign of arousal," she continued, "but had known it for what it was. And had even managed

It never ceased to amaze him the power of the sex drive. No matter how intelligent and rational a person was otherwise, the sex drive was controlled by more primitive regions, and could turn the most brilliant man on Earth into an animal, flirting with disaster in pursuit of physical gratification, even when he knew in his rational mind that this was nothing but a trick played on him by his incorrigible limbic system. Walsh

We've all heard Arthur C. Clarke's famous quote by now," said Hoyer. "It's become so common, I think they're printing it on fortune cookies. But it's also true." "You mean, 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'?" said Reed.

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, by Matt Ridley Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and

Instead, she had revealed the existence of what everyone else recognized as the perfect skeleton key, able to unlock every digital door in existence.

We're our own worst enemy.

The running joke is that the lack of sex makes people more intense, winds them up, messes with their heads. But it's not a joke. It's a critical need, and in my view, something whose contribution to the human condition and mental health can't be minimized.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." —Carrie Snow "Beam

Mark Zuckerberg is an optimist, whereas Elon Musk and Bill Gates are very much the opposite, as was the late Stephen Hawking.

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The ASI's hope is that in this case, the battle waged between biological-based transcendent beings, and a computer-based transcendent being,

The universe would rather live with paradox than infinite timelines,

Her timing with men had been bad before. But never this bad.

kinetic round would bring massive death and destruction to Turlock,