Sometimes exhausted from toil and endeavour I wish I could sleep for ever and ever But then this assertion my thinking allays I shall be doing that one of these days.
Sometimes exhausted from toil and endeavour
I wish I could sleep for ever and ever
But then this assertion my thinking allays
I shall be doing that one of these days.
-- Piet Hein
speak for yourself Sir, I intend to live forever
-Jonathan Frakes, as William T Riker
A fine intention. But until we make the technology, we are still, after all, only mortal.
“Had we but world enough and time
But we don’t
So let’s get on with it.”
-- Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (abridged)
Your original quote asserts a definite fate, not a fate which would occur if some particular technology were to remain uninvented.
That is not dead which can eternal lieAnd with strange aeons even death may die
-- H. P. Lovecraft
Piet Hein is definitely dead.
“Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.”
--author William Saroyan, letter written to his survivors
Holy shit, this the first time ever that I realized the relationship between this Lovecraft quote and classic OB/LW topics. Scary.
You mean you missed it back in February? :)
I love Piet Hein :)
For many system shoppers it’s a good-for-nothing system that classifies as opposites stupidity and wisdom. Because by logic-choppers it’s accepted with avidity: stupidity’s true opposite’s the opposite stupidity.
For many system shoppers it’s
a good-for-nothing system
that classifies as opposites
stupidity and wisdom.
Because by logic-choppers it’s
accepted with avidity:
stupidity’s true opposite’s
the opposite stupidity.
or
Wisdom is the booby prize given when you’ve been unwise.
Wisdom is
the booby prize
given when you’ve been
unwise.
-- Piet Hein
-Jonathan Frakes, as William T Riker
A fine intention. But until we make the technology, we are still, after all, only mortal.
“Had we but world enough and time
But we don’t
So let’s get on with it.”
-- Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (abridged)
Your original quote asserts a definite fate, not a fate which would occur if some particular technology were to remain uninvented.
-- H. P. Lovecraft
Piet Hein is definitely dead.
--author William Saroyan, letter written to his survivors
Holy shit, this the first time ever that I realized the relationship between this Lovecraft quote and classic OB/LW topics. Scary.
You mean you missed it back in February? :)
I love Piet Hein :)
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