Patrick

“Anyone with an internet connection has access to more high-quality information sources than Harvard professors 50 years ago could have dreamed of. It turns out that there just aren’t many people who want to take advantage of that.”
― Kevin Munger

“A good pursued too inflexibly may turn into a granite evil.”
― Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

“For who owns that car, or that washing machine, or that apartment? Not the man himself. The banks own them, the insurance companies, ultimately the State. They are his only on credit, on sufferance. Every month he lops off a bit of his life and labor and mails it to the bank, or the credit card company, or the Government. He is in thrall; and there is no foreseeable end to it.”
― Jon Manchip White

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin