Adriaan

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl

“… called my ‘chronological snobbery’, the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common t o our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively) or did it merely die away as fashions do? … From seeing this, one passes to the realisation that our own age is also a ‘period’, and certainly has, like all periods, its own characteristic illusions. They are likeliest to lurk in those widespread assumptions which are so ingrained in that age that no one dares to attack or feels it necessary to defend them.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life