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Author:Brent Scowcroft

“Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Age Our Lives Middle Program Machines Programming Middle Ages Programmers Renaissance Woven Priesthood

Author:Tim O'Reilly

“When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.”

Way Looks Age Middle Compare Historian Inflation Middle Ages Bloodletting

Author:Lee Iacocca

“In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.”

States Age Christianity Opinion Middle Consequence Argument Preserves Purity Folly Opposition Ridicule Middle Ages Loaded

Book:The Life and Writings of ...

Source: The Life and Writings of ...

“It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.”

Seems Age Together Stuff Christ Middle Jew Middle Ages Reformation Coming Together Gentiles

Author:N. T. Wright

“Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.”

Age Humanity Culture Middle Battle Tests Middle Ages Cheaper

Book:Dear Me

Source: Dear Me

“Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.”

Age Middle Ignorance Revenge Middle Ages

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution”

Knows Age Middle Exercise Caution Middle Ages

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.”

Age Jobs Young Challenges Ability Middle Tests Workers Cynical Decline Middle Ages Premature Unproductive Knowledge Workers

Author:Peter Drucker

“I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.”

People Lasts Remember Guy Middle Beats Standing Thirds Comic Chests Rats Middle Ages Bombing Yelling Middle Aged Rambo Viet Cong

Author:Rob Cantrell

“I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.”

Age Pleasure Middle Eating Middle Ages Eating Out

Author:Rick Astley

“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”

Long Stills Age Lasts Values Humanity Existence Wonder Economy Seeing Middle Poet Shadow Islands Materialism Tribes Immoral Middle Ages Criteria Inhuman Global Economy

Author:Tiziano Terzani

“I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.”

Ifs Thinking Age Middle Conscience Aging Fifty Middle Ages Best Times Degeneration Fatty

Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”

“Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.”

Believe Age Given I Believe Rich Middle Guitar Starting Definitions Defined Phrases Survivor Middle Ages Wildlife Starting Point Expressive Debussy

Author:Joaquin Rodrigo

“Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.”

Trying Years Long Enough Age Realizing Middle Newspapers Magazines Thirty Recipes Middle Ages Thirty Years

Author:Bill Vaughan

“These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.”

Knows Hands Age Form Purpose Black Attitude Middle Stones Greek Melancholy Peculiar Revealing Middle Ages Gothic Calligraphy

Author:Victor Hugo

“The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.”

World Firsts Age Father Half Accepting Principles Middle Periods Succeed Architecture Circles Employed Middle Ages Gothic

Book:The Works of Victor Hugo

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo

“Last night was Super Tuesday - a 10-state GOP Primary orgy. A big, sweaty pile of lever-yankin Republican voters. And like most orgies, it involves a bunch of middle aged guys who are not appealing to women.”

States Bigs Lasts Night Guy Middle Republican Bunch Primaries Voters Last Night Middle Ages Tuesday Middle Aged Gop Levers

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.”

“Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.”

“At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].”

Men Kids Age Realizing Accepting Middle Baby Fifty Forty Mortality Ignored Middle Ages Boomers Baby Boomer

Author:John Travolta

“Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.”

Age Process Half Middle Discovery Crisis Lays Outcomes Better Life Middle Ages Halftime

Author:Bob Buford

“Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.”

Years Facts Age Lasts Courses Given Stars Psychology Middle Importance Mere University Psychological Gates Professors Superstitions Last Year Astrology Middle Ages Knocking Antiquity Cardiff

Author:Carl Jung

“Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.”

Age Middle Goes On Holiday Packs Middle Ages Sweaters

Author:Denis Norden

“There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.”

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”

Men Want Age Young Nature Middle Young Man Smoking Weed Attributes Marijuana Middle Ages Soothing

Book:Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Age Fall Known Middle Keys Habit Truth Is Disease Normal Approach Mindfulness Wake Up Everyday Patterns Falling Apart Middle Ages Portal Midlife

Author:Christiane Northrup

“One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.”

Age Five Sadness Middle Adventure Twenties Middle Ages Twenty Five

Author:Jon Weisman

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