“Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.” TruthCertainNumbersCenturyMonthsTruth IsGoldFruitBoundsDearImmortalDecayDear FriendFalsity Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.” YearsMindIdeasDifferentThreeGrowthBrainWeekChildhoodCenturyTheoryMonthsBillionsScalesFleeting Author:Marvin Minsky
“I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.” KnowsYearsWinningWeekCenturyMonthsBasketballDays Of The WeekMonths Of The Year Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“In the previous days and times, we've been involved, not exclusively, but largely, in the process of individual survival: How do I get through the day, how do I get through the week, how do I get through the month? In the 21st century, we're learning that we can no longer concentrate on individual survival strategies, that unless we begin to coalesce those strategies and learn how we can survive collectively, that no individual is going to survive in the long run.” LongRunningIndividualProcessWeekCenturyMonthsInvolvedSurvivalStrategyLong Runs21st Century Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.” LongHomeBigsEnergyStuffPowerfulCitiesPracticeCenturyCarBuildingMonthsOffersBillsShoppingStubbornLandfills Author:Alex Steffen
“It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.” IfsShouldTryingBelieveHas BeensUsedTurnsI BelieveInterestMy OwnCenturyDyingMonthsShould HaveResponsibleSurpriseTrackFewer20th CenturyDeathbedPunctuationChaps Author:Lynne Truss