Quotes About Curiosity

there's a certain wisdom in being skeptical. But we need to hold our skepticism lightly, with a willingness to explore before dismissing outright

There was something wonderful - something potent even - about a present before it's unwrapped. Especially an unexpected one. Anything could be inside.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

In other words, science is a method that chiefly expands our ignorance rather than our knowledge.

Listening well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them "Is there more?" until there is no more.

Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do. A good question is what humans are for.

Yet the paradox of science is that every answer breeds at least two new questions. More tools, more answers, ever more questions.

Question makers will be seen, properly, as the engines that generate the new fields, new industries, new brands, new possibilities, new continents that our restless species can explore. Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We

Ironically, the best questions are not questions that lead to answers, because answers are on their way to becoming cheap and plentiful. A good question is worth a million good answers. A

Some people think technology has the answers.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

When I woke up, Carl was standing over me, his hand lightly resting on his cheek, like I was abstract art, like he saw something that interested him but he wasn't sure what it meant, like he thought I was something a child could have made.

The whole experience felt like what drugs must have felt like. It was the high of doing something weird, not knowing the outcome.

A wicked child is the most beautiful thing in the world.

loved how expertly bitchy she was; I wanted to study her for a year.

We're just bored," said Joseph. "That's the simplest answer. It's like, no matter where you are or what you're doing, you have to try like hell to keep from getting bored to death.

Indians do not believe in privacy; they are a nosey people and the one thing they will not do is mind their own business.

To read all these stories and more, you will have to wait till I am dead and a suicidal publisher decides to print them.

people believe what they are told. I believe nothing, consider everything.