“The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.”
―
Marcus Sakey,
Brilliance
“. . . the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don’t have your glasses on while you’re looking . . .” ― Marcus Sakey, The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
“Worry is a misuse of the imagination” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse” ― Marcus Sakey
“You want to change the world? Forget politics. Learn to code.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Freedom is not a couch. It’s not a television, or a car, or a house. It’s not an item you can possess. You cannot put freedom on layaway; you cannot refinance freedom. Freedom is something you need to fight for, not once, but every single day. The nature of freedom is that it is fluid; like water in a leaking bucket, the tendency is for it to drain away. Left untended, the holes through which freedom escapes widen. When politicians restrict our rights in order to “protect us,” freedom is lost. When the military refuses to disclose basic facts, freedom is lost. Worst of all, when fear becomes a part of our lives, we willingly surrender freedom for a promise of safety, as if freedom weren’t the very basis of safety.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“She’d always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. It was just that she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.” ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
“Life is a raindrop” ― Marcus Sakey, The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
“No, the great thing about the truth is that it’s true.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.” ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Revolution? You’re an idiot. You don’t even know what that word means. Forget your precious Mao and Che and Fidel. If they’ve appeared on a T-shirt, they haven’t changed shit. You want revolution, look at Alexander Fleming. Penicillin transformed the world in ways Lenin and Washington only dreamt of. Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It’s adult swim.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. Being an engineer or an architect had once been high aspirations. Now everybody wanted to be musicians and basketball players, and America didn’t build squat.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It’s in the data.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.” ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
“We are never more clever than in the creation of ways to destroy ourselves.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Data. That’s what matters. That’s what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it’s useless.” ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
“the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That’s how you knew a fair deal had been reached.” ― Marcus Sakey, Written in Fire
“He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“. . . the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don’t have your glasses on while you’re looking . . .” ― Marcus Sakey, The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
“Worry is a misuse of the imagination” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse” ― Marcus Sakey
“You want to change the world? Forget politics. Learn to code.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Freedom is not a couch. It’s not a television, or a car, or a house. It’s not an item you can possess. You cannot put freedom on layaway; you cannot refinance freedom. Freedom is something you need to fight for, not once, but every single day. The nature of freedom is that it is fluid; like water in a leaking bucket, the tendency is for it to drain away. Left untended, the holes through which freedom escapes widen. When politicians restrict our rights in order to “protect us,” freedom is lost. When the military refuses to disclose basic facts, freedom is lost. Worst of all, when fear becomes a part of our lives, we willingly surrender freedom for a promise of safety, as if freedom weren’t the very basis of safety.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“She’d always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. It was just that she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.” ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
“Life is a raindrop” ― Marcus Sakey, The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
“No, the great thing about the truth is that it’s true.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.” ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Revolution? You’re an idiot. You don’t even know what that word means. Forget your precious Mao and Che and Fidel. If they’ve appeared on a T-shirt, they haven’t changed shit. You want revolution, look at Alexander Fleming. Penicillin transformed the world in ways Lenin and Washington only dreamt of. Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It’s adult swim.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. Being an engineer or an architect had once been high aspirations. Now everybody wanted to be musicians and basketball players, and America didn’t build squat.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It’s in the data.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.” ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
“We are never more clever than in the creation of ways to destroy ourselves.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
“Data. That’s what matters. That’s what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it’s useless.” ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
“the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That’s how you knew a fair deal had been reached.” ― Marcus Sakey, Written in Fire
“He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.” ― Marcus Sakey, A Better World
