"I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time."

-- Danny Hillis

#Hands Quotes #Years Quotes #Cuckoos Quotes

“An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.”
“We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.”
“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?”
“It's so much more fun to do the work than to talk about it. I will have to admit that. Everybody gets to decide how they feel, and what to take away by themselves, and that's what you hope for. That people will take away different things and have different experiences from the work we do as actors. So I don't like to prescribe how to feel about the work I do.”
“If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.”
“So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.”
“All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.71, Random House
“Live for who and what you love.”

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