"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Men Quotes #Technology Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.”
“If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.”
“The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.”
“You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.”
“Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.”
“L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.”
“Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.”
“When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.”

Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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