B E > B E's Quotes

“Why shouldn’t quiet be strong? And what else can quiet do that we don’t give it credit for?”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.”
― H.G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon

“It is an extraordinary fact that having good and loving relationships physically alters your DNA.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

“Any reality that cannot be experienced is essentially unreal.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Perhaps reality is being created in each and every moment, as it is being experienced.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“We are not separate from reality observing it from a distance. Our observations are shaping reality.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Many of our technology-related problems arise because of the unforeseen consequences when apparently benign technologies are employed on a massive scale.”
― Tom Standage, A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

“what looks like a quick fix today may well end up having far-reaching and unintended consequences tomorrow.”
― Tom Standage, A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

“To use them, and turn his press into an assembly line, his workers had to master an array of skills—reading the Latin of the source Bible; rapidly and accurately arranging the type, upside down and backward, in frames to duplicate the text for printing; spacing type line by line and employing the scribe’s art of using hyphenation and abbreviations to ensure that it lined up perfectly in two columns of equal width. Not to mention learning to ink the type, work the presses, and pull clear, unblemished pages, tens of thousands of times.”
― Margaret Leslie Davis, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey

“And, finally, what good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?2”
― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology