We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.Napoleon Hill
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.Sigmund Freud
I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, 'Wow, these networks have a lot of information.'Mark Zuckerberg
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.Douglas Coupland
I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.Douglas Coupland
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.Douglas Coupland
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.Carl Sagan