Alexis

“Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God’s conception, or nature’s. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."

We effectively became “time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers” with the invention of the clock.”
― Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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