Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978
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If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCI know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943