Gentry Lee quotes

Gentry Lee quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.”
-- Gentry Lee

Source : Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.314, RosettaBooks

#Ambition Quotes #Able Quotes #Infinity Quotes

“Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.”
“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.”
“For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.”
“Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.”
“I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
“The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.”
“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.”
“Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“Patience mimics the power of infinity.”

Source : Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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