Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£This is the first age thatÔÇÖs ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.

When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.ÔÇØ
Arthur C Clarke.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The best proof that thereÔÇÖs intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasnÔÇÖt come here.ÔÇØ

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return  The
coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation  the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.


ÔÇ£The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life ÔÇö much less intelligence ÔÇö beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive; we may well be
like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms, while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.ÔÇØ

Arthur C Clarke.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information ÔÇö in the sense of raw data ÔÇö is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.ÔÇØ

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have broken the glass of the fire-alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long. ÔÇ£


ÔÇ£2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.ÔÇØ

The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space  Im very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: The dinosaurs became extinct because they didnt have a space program.
And if we become extinct because we donÔÇÖt have a space program, itÔÇÖll serve us right!ÔÇØ


 we have a situation in which millions of vehicles, each a miracle of (often unnecessary) complication, are hurtling in all directions under the impulse of anything up to two hundred horsepower. Many of them are the size of small houses and contain a couple of tons of sophisticated alloys  yet often carry a single passenger.
They can travel at a hundred miles an hour, but are lucky if they average forty. In one lifetime they have consumed more irreplaceable fuel than has been used in the whole previous history of mankind. The roads to support them, inadequate though they are, cost as much as a small war; the analogy is a good one, for the casualties
are on the same scale.ÔÇØ

Arthur C Clarke

[Lilith7]

For his 90th birthday in December 2007, Arthur C. Clarke recorded a greeting to his friends around the world.
As part of the message, Clarke expressed three wishes:
ÔÇ£Firstly, I would like to see some evidence of extra-terrestrial life. I have always believed that we are not alone in the universe. But we are still waiting for ET to call us ÔÇö or give us some kind of a sign.
We have no way of guessing when this might happen ÔÇö I hope sooner rather than later!
Secondly, I would like to see us kick our current addiction to oil, and adopt clean energy sources. 
Climate change has now added a new sense of urgency. Our civilisation depends on energy, but we cant allow oil and coal to slowly bake our planet
The third wish is one closer to home. IÔÇÖve been living in Sri Lanka for 50 years ÔÇö and half that time, IÔÇÖve been a sad witness to the bitter conflict that divides my adopted country. I dearly wish to see lasting peace established in Sri Lanka as soon as possible.ÔÇØ

Arthur C Clarke.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.ÔÇØ
Elizabeth Brown

ÔÇ£People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to threm. When they've become old, they become 'good taste.'
Mary Quant

ÔÇ£A poet can survive everything but a misprint.ÔÇØ
Oscar Wilde

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I'm a dangerous person because I mind about things.ÔÇØ
King Charles 3rd

ÔÇ£Success is a great deodorant.ÔÇØ
Elizabeth Taylor

ÔÇ£Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.ÔÇØ
Rudyard Kipling

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.ÔÇØ
Scott Adams

ÔÇ£If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.ÔÇØ
Napoleon Hill

ÔÇ£Funny how my kid knows the answer to everything unless its something I specifically asked.ÔÇØ
On Twitter

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The creative adult is the child who has survived.ÔÇØ
Ursula Le Guin

ÔÇ£NZ is a country of 30 thusand million sheep, 3 million of whom think they are human.ÔÇØ
Barry Humphries

ÔÇ£If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.ÔÇØ
Bill Gates

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I was an activist long before I became an artist.ÔÇØ
Harry Belafonte

ÔÇ£Nothing is more despicable then respect based on fear.ÔÇØ
Albert Camus

ÔÇ£I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.ÔÇØ
J D Salinger

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.ÔÇØ
Mary Kate Ash

ÔÇ£Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.ÔÇØ
Lao Tzu

ÔÇ£Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.ÔÇØ
Christina Rosetti

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Happiness is good health & a bad memory.ÔÇØ
Ingrid Bergman

ÔÇ£One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.ÔÇØ
Samuel Johnson

ÔÇ£Research is formalised curiosity. It is poking & prying with a purpose.ÔÇØ
Zora Neale Hurston

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£One of the most cowardly thngs ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.ÔÇØ
C S Lewis

ÔÇ£ Everyone ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.ÔÇØ
Jerry Springer

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Don't sweat the petty things & don't pet the sweaty things.ÔÇØ
George Carlin

ÔÇ£I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going & hook up with them later.ÔÇØ
Mitch Hedberg

ÔÇ£To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.ÔÇØ
Edmund Burke

[Lilith7]

"I cannot teach anyone anything. I can only make them think."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."


"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

Socrates

[zqwerty]

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional"

anon

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority sharer in it.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

ÔÇ£I do not believe in late stage capitalism or that prioritising the extreme pursuit of profit at any & all human/environmental cost will save us. I believe in cooperative economics & cooperative democracy, aka democratic socilaism.ÔÇØ
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

ÔÇ£The soul has illusions like the bird has wings: thatÔÇÖs what sustains it. ÔÇØ
Victor Hugo

[zqwerty]

"Over the powerful nudity of truth, the diaphanous cloak of fantasy"

Eça de Queiroz.

[zqwerty]

ÔÇ£I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."

--Carl Sagan, from his 1995 book "The Demon Haunted World"

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories; that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare to say now that two beings have fallen in love because they lookes at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins & this way only .ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Not being heard is no reason for silence.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.ÔÇØ
Victor Hugo

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£He who does not weep does not see.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable. ÔÇ£

Victor Hugo