I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971
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Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCTrade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843