Daniel

“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde