S.E. Hinton Quotes
Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.
To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.
It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.
Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.
You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.
You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.
It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.
I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
