
Designing the Future (2007)
A collection of quotes on the topic of span, life, time, timing.
Designing the Future (2007)
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 295
Canto XIX, lines 79–81 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
"Recipe of life" video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7iPACdA1HQ
Interview with David Frost (1974)
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“As they use to say, spick and span new.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.
Muslim Separatism – Causes and Consequences (1987)
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, Canto 5, Chapter 14, verse 31. (1999)
Callum Coats: Water Wizard
Viktor Schauberger: Our Senseless Toil (1934)
2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
“Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say.”
Speaking of Frank Sinatra
Larry King interview (2005)
Abstract
Civil servants and their constitutions, 2002
Source: Real Christianity (1797), p. 342.
Context: In our own days, when it is but too clear that infidelity increases, it is not in consequence of the reasonings of the infidel writers having been much studied, but from the progress of luxury, and the decay of morals: and, so far as this increase may be traced at all to the works of sceptical writers; it has been produced, not by argument and discussion, but by sarcasms and points of wit, which have operated on weak minds, or on nominal Christians, by bringing gradually into contempt, opinions which, in their case, had only rested on the basis of blind respect and the prejudices of education. It may therefore be laid down as an axiom, that infidelity is in general a disease of the heart more than of the understanding. If Revelation were assailed only by reason and argument, it would have little to fear. The literary opposers of Christianity, from Herbert to Hume, have been seldom read. They made some stir in their day: during their span of existence they were noisy and noxious; but like the locusts of the east, which for a while obscure the air, and destroy the verdure, they were soon swept away and forgotten.' Their very names would be scarcely found, if Leland had not preserved them from oblivion.
Variant: What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.
Source: The Funny Thing Is...
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.”
“He has the attention span of a hummingbird.”
Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Source: Natural Theology (1802), Ch. 24 : Of the Natural Attributes of the Deity.
Arthur Jensen, "The Debunking of Scientific Fossils and Straw Persons" http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/jensen-gould-fossils Contemporary Education Review 1:2, 1982
"Five Questions about Language Design" http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html, May 2001
Source: Fifty key figures in management, 2004, p. 42
Perhaps they were not.
"Dinosaur Renaissance", Scientific American 232, no. 4 (April 1975), 58—78
Dinosaur Renaissance (1975)
“Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.”
Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 55)
Source: Classification and indexing in science (1958), Other Chapters, p. 147 Cited in: Madeline M. Henderson (1966) Cooperation, convertibility, and compatibility among information systems: a literature review. p. 72.
Morgenes leaned forward, waggling the leather-bound volume under Simon’s nose. “A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever. The more books you have,” the doctor waved an all-encompassing hand about the room, “the more traps, then the better chance of capturing some particular, elusive, shining beast—one that might otherwise die unseen.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 7, “The Conqueror Star” (pp. 92-93).
Source: 1950s, The pattern of management, 1956, p. 43; cited in: Colin Combe (2014), Introduction to Management, p.118
Source: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
Onde pode acolher-se um fraco humano,
Onde terá segura a curta vida,
Que não se arme, e se indigne o Céu sereno
Contra um bicho da terra tão pequeno?
Stanza 106, lines 5–8 (tr. Richard Francis Burton)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
Source: The End of Science (1996), p. 66
The Book of Opium (1975 - 1990), Overdose
Source: Caterina Davinio, Il libro dell'oppio 1975 – 1990] (The Book of Opium 1975 – 1990), Puntoacapo Editrice, Novi Ligure 2012. English translation by Caterina Davinio and David W. Seaman.</ref>
Interview with Request Magazine, October 1994 http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/request_10-94.shtml,
Soundgarden Era
Source: Mark Swed, "For L.A., History's Knocking", Los Angeles Times, December 26, 1996
Source: 1940s, The Elements of Business Administration, 1943, p. 53
"The selection pressure that women placed on men developed the entire species. There's two things that happened. The men competed for competence, since the male hierarchy is a mechanism that pushes the best men to the top. The effect of that is multiplied by the fact that women who are hypergamous peel from the top. And so the males who are the most competent are much more likely to leave offspring, which seems to have driven cortical expansion."
Concepts
Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 15 (p. 21 in 2006 edition)
in his letter to H. E. Kramer, 25-10-1926, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 44 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
1920's
1990s, Inaugural speech (1994)
Acceptance speech, Pritzker Architecture Prize http://www.pritzkerprize.com/bunnei.htm#Oscar%20Niemeyer's%20Acceptance%20Speech (1988).
Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 9 “A Stranger is Coming to Makendha” (p. 69)
White Man's Bible (1983)
White Man's Bible (1983)
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Die Walkure, Act III
Page 96
The Listening Composer
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Hovind theory
In response to whether Anathem "reflects today's culture or politics," from an interview published Sept. 22, 2008 by MIT News http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/stephenson-qa-0922.html
2014
http://www.blastr.com/2014-9-12/grant-morrisons-big-talk-getting-deep-writer-annihilator-multiversity
On life
On Aam Aadmi Party, as quoted in "AAP is led by people committed to naxal ideology, alleges Subramanian Swamy" http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/aap-is-led-by-people-committed-to-naxal-ideology-alleges-subramanian-swamy/1/331149.html, India Today (13 December 2013)
2011-2014
“Fronting on me will shorten your life-span.”
I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005)
On the facilities provided in Berlin Olympics in page=55
Quote, India and the Olympics
Stanza 45.
Nosce Teipsum (1599)
Commenting on surrealist H. R. Giger. [Martin, Douglas, H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist, Dies at 74; His Vision Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/arts/h-r-giger-swiss-artist-dies-at-74-his-vision-gave-life-to-alien-creature.html, 14 May 2014, New York Times, 14 May 2014]
Alfred de Zayas on personal website http://alfreddezayas.com.
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution
The Calcutta Quran Petition (1986)
Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005), Ch. 8. "In Memoriam, Edward Thompson" (1993)
Source: 1930s, Principles of topological psychology, 1936, p. 12-13.
“While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”
Canto III, line 398
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Barren are the years behind me. This is the first day of my span, here is the threshold of my life.”
Steriles transmisimus annos:
haec aevi mihi prima dies, hic limina vitae.
ii, line 12
Silvae, Book IV
From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (March 6, 1933)
Letters
Litany of Blunders (2007)
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
"False Greatness" in Horae Lyricae Book II (1706).
Compare: "I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man", Seneca, On a Happy Life (L'Estrange's Abstract), chap. i
&: "It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul", Attributed uncertainly to Ovid
1700s
Source: On Human Communication (1957), Language: Science and Aesthetics, p.68
Though this state links us to other ideas, people, and worlds, we feel threatened by these new connections and the change they engender.
Original: (Un)natural bridges from This bridge we call home
The adapability of man to his climate http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/04/07/the-adapability-of-man-to-his-climate/, wattsupwiththat.com, April 7, 2007.
2007