You have to really kind of think about our own existence here in the universe,” he said. “You realize that people often say, ‘I hope to go to heaven when I die.’ In reality, if you think about it, you go to heaven when you’re born.
Jim Lovell, Business Insider, March 11, 2017
Tag: Quotes
Hanna Arendt on Totalitarian Rule
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951.
Thomas Mann on Writers
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1942
Never Go To Bed Angry
Never go to bed angry. Stay awake and plot your revenge.
XML Is Like Violence
XML is like violence: if it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using enough of it.
–Unknown
To Speak The Truth
To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, 1997 Penguin Edition