Dan Brown Quotes

افتحوا عقولكم يا أصدقائي
جميعنا نخشى ما لا نفهم.

When a computer creates art, who is the artist — the computer or the programmer? At MIT, a recent exhibit of highly accomplished algorithmic art had put an awkward spin on the Harvard humanities course: Is Art What Makes Us Human?

it is said that in death, all things become clear

In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.

The Rose has always been the premiere symbol of female sexuality. In primitive goddess cults, the five petals represented the five stations of female life - birth, menstruation, motherhood, menopause, and death. And in modern times, the flowering rose's ties to womanhood are considered more visual.

Politics is a desperate business.

Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.

Jabba resembled a giant tadpole, like the cinematic creature for whom he was nicknamed, the man was a hairless spheroid. As resident guardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine. No NSA computer had ever been infected under Jabba's reign; he intended to keep it that way.

السلام الداخلي مهم جدا للتمثيل المقطع.

"(...) - So you mean that even having the power to interfere and prevent your child
feel pain, you would choose to show their love letting him learn his
own lessons?
- Sure, pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn.
The camerlegno shook his head.
- Exactly. "

p.89

دعني أذكرك أنه في فترة من الفترات كانت ألمع
العقول تعتبر الأرض مسطحة وتظن أنها لو كانت
مستديرة لانسكبت البحار منها بالتأكيد، تخيل كم كانوا
ليسخروا منك لو أنك أعلنت لهم أن الأرض ليست
مستديرة فحسب بل ثمة قوة خفية تثبت كل شيء على سطحها

Cathedral terminology was like stage directions — totally counterintuitive.

When the ancients discovered ‘Phi’, they were certain they had stumbled across God’s building block for the world.

ن كان التاريخ قد علمنا شيئاً فهو أن الأفكار
الغريبة التي نرفضها اليوم ستكون يوما ما أهم حقائقنا.

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency.