The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Max Beerbohm

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

Edwin Markham

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Charles Caleb Colton

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Alton Brown

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.

Rick Smolan

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Davy Crockett

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

Terry Pratchett

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Joni Mitchell

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

James Beattie

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James