“We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.” YearsFirstsHumansMomentsBodyHuman BeingsTechnologyThousandHundredFirst TimeEvolveThousand YearsInseparable Author:Daniel H. Wilson
“"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".” WantTwoBodyLastsSoundHundredGunPoliceLocalsWitnessEpitaphRecluse Author:James Nicoll
“We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.” YearsBodyHoursHappenedSummerHundredDiedShort Summer Author:Anna Akhmatova
“Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.” YearsHumansLongTwoBodyExistenceSeeingMinutesObjectsHugeHorrorHundredAncientRevengeCellsIdealismSplendorSparklingUnleashedManifoldInvading Author:Timothy Morton
“Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?” WorldPersonsEndsFactsBodyGovernmentMillionsListeningFoolCircumstancesSixHundredTwentiesSevenEightAccomplishedFiftyMiscellaneous Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle