The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.
During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.
But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:
Focus on situations with change potential:
This approach requires serious commitment. Development requires time. The secret is to invest a few moments every day to maximize learning.”
Development First by David Peterson & Mary Dee Hicks
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful.
Nietsche (1844 – 1900)
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
How close are we to the brink of something? Or how close to a shore? Electrical essences in the basement! Do you realize how much things have changed in the past two centuries?
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)
I glanced round the bus.
Though the windows were closed, and soon muffed, the bus was full of light. It was cruel light.
I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but of impossibilities, some gaunt, some bloated, some glaring with idiotic ferocity, some drowned beyond recovery in dreams; but all, in one way or another, distorted and faded.
One had a feeling that they might fall to pieces at any moment if the light grew much stronger. Then-there was a mirror on the end wall of the bus – I caught sight of my own.
And still the light grew.
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
MONDAY May 8th, 2023: Sold my internal combustion engine to a middle-school teacher.
I think that the BBC’s attitude toward the show while it was in production was very similar to that which Macbeth had toward murdering people:
and still no end in sight.
Douglas Adams about the creation of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
