Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.
I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.
Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!
In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.
Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.
I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself.
I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite; but these things did not surprise anyone very much. But everybody was astonished about the scissor cuts, which seemed a more unusual accomplishment. The silhouettes were very much praised, and I cut out silhouettes for all the birthdays in the family. Did anyone warn me as to where this path would lead? Not in the least; I was encouraged to continue.
The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.
For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.