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Thinking Quotes by Iain Banks
- I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
- I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going…
- I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
- I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is…
- I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way…
- Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot
- People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to…
- I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.
- I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
- ...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry…
- I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I…
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