"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."

-- Jon Postel

#World Quotes #Spectacular Quotes

“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”
“Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.”

Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.29, Open Road Media
“I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion. It's like me. I've been around long enough and I've come back in fashion.”

Source : "CNN Connie Chung Tonight", www.cnn.com. November 6, 2002.
“I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.”
“Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.”
“Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster
“Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!”
“I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.”

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