Marc

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There are those who believe knowledge is something that is acquired - a precious ore hacked, as it were, from the grey strata of ignorance.

There are those who believe that knowledge can only be recalled, that there was some Golden Age in the distant past when everything was known and the stones fitted together so you could hardly put a knife between them, you know, and it's obvious they had flying machines, right, because of the way the earthworks can only be seen from above, yeah? and there's this museum I read about where they found a pocket calculator under the altar of this ancient temple, you know what I'm saying? but the government hushed it up...

Mustrum Ridcully believed that knowledge could be acquired by shouting at people, and was endeavouring to do so.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa