Quotes
Hang onto your hat. Hang onto your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E.B. White
E.B. White (11 July 1899 – 1 October 1985) was an American writer and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine.
Probably best known for his children’s books, Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web.
E.B. was short for Elwyn Brooks.
It’s May that ruins me and September too, those two sentinels of summer: promise and nostalgia.
Patrizia Cavilli
Patrizia Cavilli (17 April 1947 – 21 June 2022) was an Italian poet and translateor.
He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.
P. G. Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and humourist.
Probably best known for his Bertie Wooster and Jeeves stories.
P.G. was short for Pelham Grenville.
You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.
Jay Alto
Jay Alto is a blogger and YouTube content provider.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan ( November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American scientist and science communicator.
Probably best known for the television series Cosmos. He also wrote the book Contact which was later made into a movie.
In practice…technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it, and use it.
Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Proverst, September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church.
This is from his encyclical Magnifica humanitas.
Anecdotes (and others)
When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town; and he made toys for us and he did a million things in his lifetime; he was always busy with his hands. And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for all the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands. He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) was a celebrated American author and screenwriter.
Probably best known for Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Joan Didion, when asked why she chose to use her good silver and fine china for ordinary, everyday meals rather than saving them for a special occasion, replied “Every day is all there is.”
Joan Didion
Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist.
Best known for her contributions to The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker and for her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking.
Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips and ways to save time making meals, because you will end up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father’s cancer diagnosis or how lonely she’s been or even what she’s planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
Shawn Smucker
Shawn Smucker (20 December 1976) is an American author and poet.
This is from his poem Please Use AI.
