Best 35 quotes of Tom Deaderick on MyQuotes

Distance incubates intelligence.

Every device is the product of mistakes, hundreds or thousands of previous mistakes. You see the results, but you do not see the mistakes.

Everything in her life had come undone as quickly as rope slipping over a cliff's edge.

Governments covered things up. They pretended to be doing all sorts of good things, but what governments were really up to, all the time, was mischief and money-grubbing.

He could filter the dangerous ones from the talkers in a few minutes of conversation, like a terrorist Turing test.

Her voice was soft and layered, like a wind chime in the breeze before it rains.

He was like a farmer's hammer, beaten and bent, and broken more than once, but welded back, bent by force of will back into place, still useful because it still could be made useful.

If all you know in life is that you are loved, you can press through anything.

I talk to myself and write down the parts that make sense.

I’ll live out my whole life as a voice with no one listening.

In the future, the scarcest resource is the attention of another person.

Isolation's not so bad, he thought, depending on the company.

I thought a lot about what I wanted to say,” Ethan softly interrupted. “I wanted to be sure it would give you the strength and courage to win through today. I decided that all you need to know is all that anyone really needs to know—you are loved. I love you. Melanie loves you. We believe in you. Somewhere up there God’s watching. He’s surely watching you. If His eye watches a sparrow, you know He’s watching the first of His children to reach across the stars and take the history of our small corner with His message out to every race of the universe. I think He must be on the edge of his throne watching and thinking, ‘Finally! This moment has come.’ He loves you, Leo. You can be sure of that. If all you know in life is that you are loved, you can press through anything. You can bear anything. Don’t let them stop you.

It's a frustration to get old, giving back hard-won ground.

It's pretty easy to be tricked when someone has access to your mind, and you have no idea they're in there.

It's the parts that reflect back at us that we most dislike in other people.

It was a desperate feeling to watch everyone else move forward.

It wasn't too far, unless there was someone shooting at you, then it was.

Memory is the great torturer.

No living creature lives without mistakes, Leo.” As it spoke, the flightsuit played videos in the visor, showing diapered babies sitting down hard as they learned to walk, tiger cubs rolling with each other and a blur of dozens of different moments captured from Earth. Everything man and Explorer creates is designed from mistakes, learned and corrected, to improve subsequent designs. I am the product of millions of mistakes, adjustments made to original concepts and plans.” The images in the visor displayed bridges swaying wildly, buildings crumbling to the ground, the blackened interior of a space capsule through a charred open door. “Every device you've ever used-so familiar you may have never considered their creation. Every device is the product of mistakes, hundreds or thousands of previous mistakes. You see the results, but you do not see the mistakes.” The flightsuit paused. “You see yourself in the mirror and see the results, and you do not see the millions of shaping events that made you. You survived these challenges. There are millions more shaping events ahead of you. You have not yet survived these, and so they feel dangerous and uncertain. If you were able to precisely recall, at will, the feelings of fear and uncertainty you experienced in the past or the moments you long ago overcame and survived would you discourage your past self from trying?

No living creature lives without mistakes.

Normal society flowed. People went to work, went to school programs, raised families, but over here where no one was looking, there was awfulness with children trapped in it, slowly sinking.

People don't realize how thoroughly we teach children to read deception. As soon as they get the basics of communication, adults and older kids start telling them unbelievable things, trying to make them seem believable. As if we know how important the ability to see through other people's lies is critically important. I guess, it is.

Save everyone but show them that you're different and you're an outcast, not a hero.

She reads me at a college level and I'm on Dr. Seuss.

She was a bubbling effervescent half-full glass in a world of cold black coffee in stained cups.

Technology has uncovered our world. Hardly a moment goes unrecorded, analytics engines trail our every move, giving us a confidence in the world around us beyond the ken of anyone who lived before us. Everything they knew, we know, the moment we might need to know it.

The creek was South Indian Creek. When the settlers moved in, they liked the Indian's names better than they liked the Indians.

There are dangerous people ready to pull the seams out of everything you've stitched together, and they can pull apart faster than you can hold.

There was nothing, a world filled with everything and no answers to explain any of it.

The strangest thing about being invisible was that you always forget you are.

They don’t last long. It's horrible and filled with more pain and misery than a full life can hold, but it's rarely a long time. The treatment is too rough and too careless, and they are so fragile.

This is the rare thing, Jon thought, one of the moments when you feel life snapping into place.

We are all God's mosquitos.

You don't know when the last time you'll ever see someone will be, best to really open your eyes to them.