Topics and Links Discussed April 7

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orphan_Black#Quotes_about_Orphan_Black -- Quotes about the TV series, Orphan Black
Well, we don’t know if Sarah is the original or not. We don’t know where this DNA is from. That is one of the mysteries for us. As Sarah discovers she’s a clone, it really is a story of, “Who am I and where did I come from?” And it is an identity thriller, in some sense, with that feeling of, “I thought I knew who I was and suddenly my world is upside down. There are copies of me, so am I the original? And if I’m not the original, who is?” I think that’s a really fantastic and massively bewildering dilemma to put a character in. We throw Sarah down this rabbit hole, which is Orphan Black. Beyond that, my creative partner and co-creator Graeme Manson and I have had many discussions about where the show will ultimately go and what will occur, in further seasons. I wouldn’t want to rule out the possibility of other clones, but I can’t say exactly that, at this point. I think we’re all very fascinated with Sarah, and we’re fascinated with her clone sisters and their journey. We’re hoping that people will find that journey as attractive and as exciting as we do.

• John Fawcett , Collider, April 13, '13

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guy_de_Maupassant#Quotes -- There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort … The need of work is in me.

 -- Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant

• As quoted in Contemporary Portraits (1920) by Frank Harris, p. 263

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e -- 

Jean-Louis Gassée

We must always give our users pure sex. It's like a rendezvous in the back seat of an automobile with a beautiful girl. One's experience with the personal computer should be better than the greatest orgasm you could have.

• Personal Computer World, July 1990
• On the user experience of the Apple Macintosh

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Wikiquote Main Page

Quote of the day

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. ~ J.K. Rowling ~

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