Quotes

 --- Norbert Wiener, "God and Golem, Inc.," 1964, quoted by Etymonline The future offers very little hope for those who expect tha...

 --- Robert Frost, quoted by Anneliese Burgess in  Skuld, skaamte en die krag van 'n geheime innerlike lewe , March 2026

 --- Jim Mattis, quoted by Ned Temko in  What constitutes victory in an ‘asymmetric’ war with Iran? , CS Monitor, March 2026 In context Mr. ...

 --- Nick Ormrod , quoted in  A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw by  Ciarán Gilligan-Lee in New Scienti...

 --- Joel Halldorf,  Professor of Church History at University College Stockholm,  Not So Secular Sweden , Comment magazine, January 2026, ...

 --- Samuel Mead,  https://www.instagram.com/samuelmeadarts/ , Instagram post , 13 February 2026 Voice over transcript (punctuation added) W...

 --- Brian Eno,  What art does, an unfinished theory (2025: 111) Excerpt Politics all too often makes the individual feel left outside with...

 --- Andy Warhol From Goodreads , no citation An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for ...

 --- Craig McCaw, quoted by Tren Griffin, in The 1990s Telecom Bubble. What Can We Learn? , November 2017 In context The $14 billion dollar ...

 Guy Davenport, from The Geography of the Imagination: 40 Essays (2024:98), in the essay “Prehistoric Eyes” Excerpt Man, it would seem, doe...

 --- Paul Kingsnorth, in AI Demonic: A Spiritual Exploration of AI , From the Nov/Dec, 2023 issue of Touchstone Excerpt For the last two yea...

 Ecclesiastes 4:1 to 4:3 . Links to BibleHub parallel translations. New International Version: Again I looked and saw all the oppression th...

 --- Sarah Housley, in an opinion piece for New Scientist,  We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change , Sep 2025 In...

 --- Irving Yalom , quoted by Anneliese Burgess in  Oor die lewe se dwarswinde , Binne+Land , 9 November 2025 Burgess writes Ek vind Irvin Y...

 --- Angus Fletcher, in conversation with Russ Roberts about his book, Primal Intelligence , EconTalk, Nov 3, 2025 ,  11:25 Russ Roberts : B...

 --- Kobayashi Issa, trans. Sam Hamill, quoted in Joel Pulliam, 45. Tokyo Cemetaries In full 世の中は地獄の上の花見哉 ( Google Translate ) in the midst ...

 --- via Feedback, New Scientist , April 2025 : Feedback is irresistibly reminded of Goodhart’s law: the notion that, once you start using a...

 --- Benjamin de Casseres , according to QuoteInvestigator . Often misattributed to various people, including Lewis Carroll and Jules de Gau...

 --- Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowduhury, a former lawmaker from the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, quoted in  Students toppled a dictat...

 --- @thestoicmanual , post  on X, quoted by Anneliese Burgess, " 'n Week van wolke, ... ," Binne+Land, 28 Jun 2025 A beautifu...

 --- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) American politician and author, Godkin Lecture, Harvard (1985) ( Source via Wist )

 --- English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90), quoted by Joseph Epstein in  The Unbearable Ubiquity of Trump , WSJ, 5 Sep 2025 From E...

 --- attrib. to the Buddha by Jack Kornfield, cited to p. 28 in Kornfield's Buddha’s Little Instruction Book by Fake Buddha Quotes , vi...

 --- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, part 3, prop. 6, quoted in Wikipedia/conatus Excerpt from the  R. H. M. Elwes translation on Gutenberg.org VI. ...

 --- Will Parker Anderson, in  How much content should you give away? , Writers Circle on  Substack , 9 august 2025 Excerpt Your greatest ob...

--- (ascr. to) Anthropologist Matt Cartmill, e.g. by Quodid Full quote As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certaint...

 --- Via Mark Crawford, 7 Aug 2025: when juvenile birds start singing again in the fall. Mating is tied to day length, and so it feels like ...

 --- poet Mary Oliver, from " Sometimes " quoted Geraldine Brooks in Memorial Days, mentioned in Karen Campbell's review, A no...

--- Thaddeus Johnson, a former police officer and now a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, quoted in Henry Gass & Patrik ...

--- cultural historian Tom Wright talking to David Runciman, The History of Bad Ideas: Charisma , 26 June 2025, at time code 2:40 Excerpt T...

 --- James Stourton, in Rogues & Scholars: A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000, reviewed by Terry Hartle , CS Monitor, March 10...

 --- Judge Omar Weslati, quoted in  This judge grew up with nothing. Now he makes sure that children have books , Meriem Belhiba, CS Monitor...

 --- Sarah Stewart Johnson , "Bon Voyage 2024 Speech, Oxford as Chrysalis," The American Oxonian , Winter 2025 A wonderful summary...

 --- Piet Croucamp, in Die ontwrigting + Johannesburg kan mistroostig wees , Binne+Land 3 Jun 2025 Quote in context Die mens se vermoë om i...

 --- @fossilisedflowers Instagram post , May 18, 2025, via Annelies Burgess,  Klein treë na 'n doelbewuste lewe , May 25, 2025 Post in ...

--- Giordano Bruno, quoted by Willem Kempen in  'n Ode aan onkunde, onvermoë en onwilligheid , Binne+Land, 9 May 2025 Extract Die Renais...

 --- Sallust, from On the Gods and the Cosmos , per Wikiquote/Sallustius , via Meghan Cox Gurdon's WSJ review of Natalie Lawrence's...

 ---  Eryk Salvaggio , in  Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? , Tech Policy Press , 19 Mar ...

---C Scot Hicks and David V Hicks, translators of Plutarch, The Lawgivers: The parallel lives of Numa Pompilius and Lycurgus of Sparta , Cir...

 --- Naomi Klein, in a July 2024  New Scientist interview  about her latest book, Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world . In context I...

 --- Ruth Krauss, "How to write a book," How to make an earthquake , 1954, pp. 27-28 Text: You can write books about anything. For...

--- attrib. to José Ortega y Gasset ( Man and Crisis , 1964), in Cindy Engel,  Another Self: How Your Body Helps You Understand Others (202...

 Anselm Kiefer, 1991(?), from an excerpt in the Wim Wender documentary Anselm: Das Rauschen der Zeit  (2023). In audio over what seems to be...

 --- R Buckminster Fuller, in "No More Secondhand God," collected in No More Secondhand God and Other Writings By R. Buckminster F...

The robot valet Uncharles, on the last page of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model (2024), “Epilogue,” p. 373. Excerpt “Justice is a human-m...

The robot valet Uncharles, in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model (2024), “Interconnection IV,” p. 251. Uncharles has been told that he’s be...

 --- Weird Al Yankovic, interviewed in the documentary  Weird Al: Never Off Beat (2023), around time code 31:12

 --- Designer Paula Scher quoted by Rei Inamoto in  To Rebrand or Not To Rebrand? , Nov 2024 From Inamoto's post: According to legend, i...

 --- Max Frisch, Homo Faber (1957), epigraph to the Introduction of Christine Rosen's  The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Di...

--- Wayne Thibaud, quoted by Adam Gopnik in “An American Painter,” in Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective , Steven A. Nash, Thames ...