We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995
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I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
—Orson Welles, 1953It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BC