33 Quotes About 2015

I don’t know, this time it’s really difficult.

There is something inherently deceptive about reality.

The simplest answer is that the user had access to reality—every company builds a bubble around itself, where the products get built and tested in a more controlled environment than they get used in. This is especially true of complex software. What the early users enabled Xiaomi to see was how MIUI actually worked when real (albeit unusually technically proficient) people tried to install it on a wide variety of devices.

Without succumbing to political nightmares, we might ponder whether the bleak, socially estranged future facing poor kids in America today could have unanticipated political consequences tomorrow. So quite apart from the danger that the opportunity gap poses to American prosperity, it also undermines our democracy and perhaps even our political stability.

The need for the amendment was obvious. Of the nation’s four million slaves at the outset of the war, no more than five hundred thousand were now [15 June 1854] free, and, to his disgust, many white Americans intended to have them reenslaved once the war was over.

How do they know what to do?" Mary Frances said. "To just rip into a building like that and expect it to stay standing.""For the parts you want to stay standing," Tim said."Exactly.""Practice," Al said. "And of course, one of them is in charge."Mary Frances studied the tangle of men, all dressed alike, movingly easily together. "I can't tell them apart.""Well, it's like war, I guess," Al said. "If you knew whom to blame, it'd be too easy to shoot him.