"We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?"

-- Paul Davies

#Intelligent Quotes #Years Quotes #Community Quotes

“Everyone has different layers to who they are.”

Source : "I used to sneak into my parents' bedroom and look through Playboy". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2007.
“Never stop listening to your audience.”
“The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.”

Source : Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.47, SUNY Press
“Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.”
“I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.”
“The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.”

Source : "The Theory of Theatrical Dancing: With a Chapter on Pantomime".
“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.”

Source : "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.
“As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly â€œinertâ€ letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.”

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