Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is just another post-yuppie fantasy, more like a balloon than a cloud, one that will burst from over-use, cyber treachery or other natural causes.
--Andrew Marshall

Learn

I have had to learn the simplest things
last. Which made for difficulties.
--Charles Olson

Questioning

Finding our true Jewish identity can begin by questioning our whiteness.
--Rabbi Gil Steinlauf

Crisis

We have inherited a language that is too puny for the crisis we face.
--Rev. Dr. William Barber II

Enchanted

It seems to me that those who loudly proclaim their disenchantment with life have never been really enchanted by it.
--John Buchan

Remembering

We never really "learn" anything in life--what we call learning is actually a kind of remembering. A wisdom that is inherent within each of us can be awakened by intention and full-bodied understanding.
--Frederick Woodruff

Paragons

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
--Tennessee Williams

Race

We may take on racism--we think we know it when we see it--but race and racism aren't the same thing. There are all sorts of barriers when it comes to discussing race.
--Manohla Dargis

Angry

Don't worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.
--Matt Haig

Infinite

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
--Leo Tolstoy

True and False

A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
--Gottfried Leibniz

Now

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
--Jack Kerouac

Reality

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that we don't have that memory and that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.
--Rebecca Solnit

Open

We can all affect each other, by being open enough to make each other feel less alienated.
--David Wojnarowicz

Stable

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
--James Baldwin

Opinion

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
--Noam Chomsky

News

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching news.
--Matt Haig

World War III

As for what worries me about the world, it is war. We already have a World War III in little bits and pieces. Lately there is talk of a possible nuclear war, as though it were a card game.
--Pope Francis (January 2017)

Illusions

Civilized life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
--J.G. Ballard

Accumulate

Freedom is not the freedom to accumulate, but the fact that I have no need to accumulate.
--Max Horkheimer

Loneliness

Loneliness is personal, and it is also political.
--Olivia Laing

Information

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
--Neil Postman