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Quotes About Challenge

A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty surprise ready to punish you for every false step.
~ Cornelia Funke
Belive you me, this maze is a labrinth!
~ Cornelia Funke
Oh, putrid puffballs! Stop winding us all up like this or I'll tie a knot in your tail!
~ Cornelia Funke
Es ist immer dasselbe mit den gefährlichen Abenteuern, sie beginnen ganz harmlos.
~ Cornelia Funke
War is the great auditor of institutions
~ Correlli Barnett
So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.
~ Cory Doctorow
I have given this offer more consideration than it is due already. Now, fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying 'You Can't Fuck Off Past Here.' Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.
~ Cory Doctorow
Any complex system is sport for a hacker;
~ Cory Doctorow
But you technical people have a disease: it's called 'solutionism.' You see every challenge as a problem and every problem as having a solution and every solution as being a piece of technology. You hare off after those solutions without ever stopping to see whether there's another, worse problem that'll burst into life the moment the current one is 'solved.
~ Cory Doctorow
It was the fact that there was all this terrible stuff and no one seemed to be able to do anything about it.
~ Cory Doctorow
Sometimes hard problems don't have easy solutions.
~ Cory Doctorow
If you installed something wrong, the system tried to find a way to work around your stupid mistake.
~ Cory Doctorow
Martin tried to shut her down by talking about the intrinsically vulnerable circumstances of farming, and she countered by snappishly reminding them all of the vulnerability of fucking starving to death.
~ Cory Doctorow
It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.
~ Cory Doctorow
It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out." She
~ Cory Doctorow
If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.
~ Craig Lambert
You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
~ Cressida Cowell
What you g-g-gonna do, tough guy? Tickle Toothless to d-d-death?
~ Cressida Cowell
Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like.
~ Cressida Cowell
You remember what I said, way way way back at the start of Hiccup's adventures, how this would be the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way? Now you can begin to see exactly how hard the way has been.
~ Cressida Cowell
Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.
~ Cressida Cowell
However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!
~ Cressida Cowell
Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.
~ CrimethInc.
I didn't want to accept that in order to move forward, I had to walk through it. It was so much easier just to believe there was another path I could take around it and that at the end of that path would be the destination I wanted. It would be easier to want to end up at a lie, instead of the truth.
~ Cristina Henriquez