John Stifter

“The obsidian flake and the silicon chip are struck by the light of the same campfire that has passed from hand to hand since the human mind began.”
― George Dyson, Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

“Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the reflection dwells on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“When the computers developed, they would take over a good deal of the burden of the politicians, and sooner or later would also take over their power,”
― George B. Dyson, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe