The world is too much with us;
late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
Little we see in Nature that is ours...
William Wordworth (1807)
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
Popular Mechanics (1949)
Always in motion is the future.
Yoda
change is the only constant. entropy is the name of the game. any organized system, through great or minute losses of energy, will decompose. the coffee cup beside me will one day cease to function as a coffee cup. that day may be tomorrow, or 100 years from now. cafe diem!
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the adventures of 2 architects and their hilarious journey through the mine field of designing and building their own family-friendly, eco-friendly, budget-friendly home. will they survive? tune in to find out...
lewis carroll lessons...
Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people.
The Cat: Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
Alice: How do you know I'm mad?
The Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn't have come here.
The Cat: Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
Alice: How do you know I'm mad?
The Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn't have come here.
quotes-n-whatnot
It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.- from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough. - fear and loathing in las vegas
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. - Frank Herbert (Dune)
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.- Albert Camus
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.- Dorothy Parker
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.- Buckminster Fuller
The earth is not dying–it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses- Utah Philips
No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough. - fear and loathing in las vegas
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. - Frank Herbert (Dune)
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.- Albert Camus
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.- Dorothy Parker
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.- Buckminster Fuller
The earth is not dying–it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses- Utah Philips
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- daad
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- chatta culture at its finest
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