“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.”
— Doctor Who
“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
“… the most important part of learning is actually forgetting.”
— Naftali Tishby
“We who toil now are paving the way for a far better world, and this knowledge must uphold and strengthen us through every trial.”
— Shoghi Effendi
“Finally I am becoming stupider no more”
— the epitaph Paul Erdős wrote for himself
“The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls; so it is to this we must look—to becoming more spiritual, drawing nearer to God, no matter what our human minds and bodies go through.”
— Shoghi Effendi
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
— A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient!, but also with our own poor selves, remembering that even the Prophets of God sometimes got tired and cried out in despair!”
— Shoghi Effendi
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”
— Charles Dickens