I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Jaron Lanier

I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardene

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Aldous Huxley

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Eldridge Cleaver

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen King

There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

The eyes have one language everywhere.

George Herbert

Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary

Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

Kurt Vonnegut

Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Giotto di Bondone

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt