Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962
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It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThe first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCAll technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790