Only a living man, stupid enough to wonder

The computer has freed man���s brain.

But computers did not go hand by bloody hand across The Clivorn���s crags. Only a living man, stupid enough to wonder, to drudge for knowledge on his knees. To risk. To experience. To be lonely.

No cheap way.

��� James Tiptree Jr., ���And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways���, Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975)

This quote is from my favourite short story by science fiction writer Alice Sheldon, under her pseudonym James Tiptree Jr.

For me, it���s about daring to experience the wonders of life for oneself. Maybe there are some wonders you don���t care much for, but the ones you do are worth pursuing. We only get one life���and, so far, no one���s gotten out of it alive���so, might as well use it in a way most meaningful to you.