#ape

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day. ↗

— James Thomson

#dream #frequently #life #night #return

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#board #drawing #hand #look #make

People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#am #great #guess #i #i am

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#cannot #facts #get #going #judgements

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#american #american public #been #believe #best

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ↗

— Donald Trump

#better #better off #experience #few #few things

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#busily #different #entitlement #experimenting #felt

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#built #companies #crumbling #deny #edifice

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#change #comparable #earth #edge #human

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#any #coloured #go #house #how