Quotes
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Wondering Feynman
‘I wonder why.I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder!‘― Richard Feynman
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Understanding Government Attitudes Towards Competition
‘Don’t steal, the government hates competition.‘― Bumper sticker
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Why Science Embraces Its Failures
‘Science is always trying to prove itself wrong, because thqt is the quickest route to finding out what is actually going on.‘― Helen Czerski
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Vanity and the Rise of the Web
‘I’m so vain. I probably think this page is about me.‘― Dr Chuck Severance in Web Applications for Everybody
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The Purpose of Reading
‘Why are we reading, if not in the hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatise our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our…
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Clarice Lispector reflecting about The Instant
‘The instant is this one. The instant is of an imminence that takes my breath away. The instant is in itself imminent. At the same time that I live it, I burst into its passage into another instant.‘― Clarice Lispector
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Productivity
‘If any of us knew what we were doing, or where we are going, then when we think we best know! We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us. All our…
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The Soul of the Bookstore
‘The bookstore comprises books that have chronometers. As they come and they go, these books compose the bookstore. Too often our impatience as retailers relegates books to the dustbin before the upper chamber of their hourglass has emptied.‘― Jeff Deutsch
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The Art of Time
‘Bookselling is an art, and art takes time and divides it up as art sees fit.‘― Zadie Smith
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The Destinies of Books
‘Books have destinies as objects, and people appointments with them.‘― Gotham Book Mart
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