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? :)
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-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? :)