“In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move”.
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”
"Do you think… God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created, here on Earth? "
Dr Romero, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, written by Robert Rodriguez.
“A traveller from an antique land who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.”
OZYMANDIAS
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
These words have ways stuck with me, reminding me of the rest of the poem, but mainly reminding me that even vast, expensive and truly effortful things that many once cared about will eventually decay and become forgotten. Similar to the other post that this too shall pass.
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
The chinese poem “The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions”
Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
“I look both ways when I cross a one way street, because that’s how much faith I have in humanity.”
“I have a hawk and it’s trained to kill cops”
Despite all our accomplishments, we all own our existence to a 6 inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
I found it somewere on the Internet and can Not forget it.
*Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
I think we are at that point again but with “AI”.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Mrs. Higgins’ body was found in the pantry, bludgeoned with a potato ricer and lying atop a fifty-pound sack of Yukon golds, her favorite for making gnocchi, though some people consider them too moist for this purpose.
-Joel Phillips
“That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse”
Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes
Life is best when we build bridges between people, not walls.
- Billy Crystal at the funeral/celebration of life ceremony for Muhammad Ali
(He wrote this down in his script for his speech beforehand, so don’t… just don’t.)
The end.
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this.
