Quotes About Limitation

essentially limited. In the long term, if you deny

For times when you feel pain: See that it doesn't disgrace you, or degrade your intelligence—doesn't keep it from acting rationally or unselfishly. And in most cases what Epicurus said should help: that pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits and don't magnify them in your imagination.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

Money does talk, but it has a limited vocabulary.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.

She'd learned a lot of things from Zeb in his Urban Bloodshed Limitation classes: in Zeb's view, the first bloodshed to be limited should be your own.

I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window opens only partly and why the glass in it is shatter-proof. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.

I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolour picture of blue irises, and why the window only opens partly and why the glass in it is shatterproof. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.

. .his cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend.

My time on this world is limited, but the things I can do with that time are not.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

The only problem is time.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time