John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 8 : Rationing Price Control and Wage Control
“Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.”
— Margaret Atwood, book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
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Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
As quoted in Benjamin Franta, "On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming, ', 1 January 2018. <br class="br">Context: At present the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 2 per cent over normal. By 1970, it will be perhaps 4 per cent, by 1980, 8 per cent, by 1990, 16 per cent [about 360 parts per million, by Teller’s accounting], if we keep on with our exponential rise in the use of purely conventional fuels. By that time, there will be a serious additional impediment for the radiation leaving the earth. Our planet will get a little warmer. It is hard to say whether it will be 2 degrees Fahrenheit or only one or 5.<br>But when the temperature does rise by a few degrees over the whole globe, there is a possibility that the icecaps will start melting and the level of the oceans will begin to rise. Well, I don’t know whether they will cover the Empire State Building or not, but anyone can calculate it by looking at the map and noting that the icecaps over Greenland and over Antarctica are perhaps five thousand feet thick.
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
Henry Wotton (1568–1639) English ambassador
On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, stanza 1 (1624). In some versions "moon" replaces "sun". This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's "Sixth Set of Books", for example.
Ralph George Hawtrey (1879–1975) British economist
Ralph George Hawtrey, quoted in Irving Fisher, The Theory of Interest (1930), Chapter 19. The Relation of Interest to Money and Prices
William Nicholson (1948) British screenwriter, playwright and novelist
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), Slaves of the Mastery (Book 2), p. 581
“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
“Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory.
~Ulquiorra”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
"Still I Rise"
Source: And Still I Rise (1978)
“The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction.”
Grady Booch (1955) American software engineer
Grady Booch in his talk "The Limits of Software."; Cited in: Gerry Boyd (2003) " Executable UML: Diagrams for the Future http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/10717." published at devx.com, February 5, 2003. <br class="br">The Limits of Software