We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.
Only silence perfects silence.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
New places always help us look at life differently
Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries because they hoped for it merely, but those who by sheer force of intellect perceived the means by which it could be accomplished and directed their experiments along the right path. . . . The name of Lilienthal is now among the most honoured, but curiously his own countrymen were the last to recognize the value of his work.
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.