"It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes

“As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.”
“The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.”
“All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it”
“Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.”
“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!”
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”

Source : Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.147, Hachette UK
“Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.”
“I liked the movie Splash a lot when I was little. I think we taped it when it was on TV, and then would watch the movie fairly often.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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