#advent

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#edge #knowledge #uncertainty #unending

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#alcoholism #alienation #dependency #human #incidence

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#extravagance #go #hand #owe #seldom

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#considered #inconvenience #only #rightly #wrongly

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. ↗

— George Crumb

#after #electronically #enormous #general #had

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #approach #computer #computer science #exotic

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

#after #eat #end #get #joy

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine. ↗

— Walter Martin

#areas #basic #bit #book #collected