Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer
The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)
Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer
The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)
“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate…
Snow… unceasing snow”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=jU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22I+used+to+be+Snow+White+but+I+drifted%22&pg=PA64-IA1#v=onepage in Life magazine (18 April 1969)
“Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.”
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Parliament Hill Speech, Ottawa, Canada, (2 June 2009)
2000s
“Your touch is soft, but your gaze is intent personified.”
Source: SHADES OF VANITY: Shades and Shadows of Eroticism
“Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.