Sketchbook 1946-1949
“To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Letter to Bertrand Russell (7 December 1916), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I
“A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used.”
Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) American computer scientist
Attributed to Gerald M. Weinberg in: Hannes P. Lubich (1995) Towards a CSCW Framework for Scientific Cooperation in Europe. p. 7
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) Swiss sculptor and painter (1901-1966)
Alberto Giacometti in: James Lord (1965), Giacometti Portrait, p. 11-12; as cited in: James Olney (1998), Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. p. 331
“I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”
Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist
Source: The Princess Diarist
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 448.
“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Source: New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, State of the Union Address (1935)
Context: We have undertaken a new order of things; yet we progress to it under the framework and in the spirit and intent of the American Constitution. We have proceeded throughout the Nation a measurable distance on the road toward this new order.
“The death of the spirit is the price of progress.”
Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) American philosopher
Eric Voegelin (1987), The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, ISBN 0226861147, p. 131
