(Matthew 22:14) And the few are going to save the world.
The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”
“Many are called, but few get up.”
The Cynic's Calendar
“Many are called but few get up.”
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.”
Joineriana: or The Book of Scraps (London: 1772), Vol. I, p. 40
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
Source: Tablets
"Foreword: Eavesdropping on the Future?" in New Frontiers in Economics (2004)
New millennium
As prime minister, on a Day of the Covenant rally in Hartenbosch, 16 December 1983, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 29
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Context: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.
Opening, The Network is the Message, p. 2
The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001)
