“We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Things,” p. 87
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
The Black Coat (2013)
“We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Things,” p. 87
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
“We are going to build a better Internet.”
John Roth (1942) Canadian businessman
Top Tech Execs: John Roth https://www.forbes.com/2000/12/13/1213topexecsroth.html?sh=1c37ab4d1fa9 December 13, 2000
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 39
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“Being on the edge isn’t as safe, but the view is better.”
Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter
Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) German-born British scholar
An Outline of European Architecture (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1942] 1957), p. 23.
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Misattributed
“Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"
Than cells and gibbets for "the man."”
Eliza Cook (1818–1889) British writer
A Song for ragged Schools, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
