It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620
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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967