Mickey7 Quotes

“I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for what they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many and varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“It’s a truism that every new technological advancement in human history has been applied first to advance the interests of the horny. The printing press? Some Bibles, mostly porn. Antibiotics? Perfect for treating STIs.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“Apparently three hours of training lectures aren’t enough to overcome a billion years of ingrained instinct for self-preservation.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“The second area where every new technology is applied, of course, is war.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many and varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I added up the benefits of having him in my life, deducted the annoyance of having to pay for everything anytime we went anywhere, and decided that on the balance, he was a net positive.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“That’s who he is. Everything’s easier if you can just accept that and move on.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“If he has to rebuild the entire ship, that’s Ship of Theseus II, the Sequel.” She leaned forward then, elbows on the table. “Really? Why? What difference does it make if he replaces every component one by one, or if he replaces them all at once?”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“You are the Ship of Theseus. We all are. There is not a single living cell in my body that was alive and a part of me ten years ago, and the same is true for you. We’re constantly being rebuilt, one board at a time.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I was—I am—the sort of person who in an earlier age would have been a low-level academic of some sort. I would have read obscure books that I found in obscure archives, and written obscure papers that nobody would ever have read.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“In order to make a leap like that, you have to either be running toward something great, or running away from something truly terrifying.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“it’s important to accept the people in your life for what they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many and varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“Estoy perdiendo el control. El hecho de que esté perdiendo el control hace que me sienta peor que si ya lo hubiera perdido.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“The short answer is that I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for what they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything,”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“And so, like bored young men throughout history, I spent an unfortunate amount of my time finding ways to get myself into trouble.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I would have read obscure books that I found in obscure archives, and written obscure papers that nobody would ever have read.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7