What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.
No span of steel will tolerate. . . neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.
I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.