

“Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.”
J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor,
“The Computer as a Communication Device,” Science and Technology , Apr. 1968.”
― The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor,
“The Computer as a Communication Device,” Science and Technology , Apr. 1968.”
― The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

“We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.”
― The Natural
― The Natural

“the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"
A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.”
― The Return of the King
A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.”
― The Return of the King
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