#ear

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow. ↗

— James Stephens

#heart #knows #today #tomorrow #understand

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#early #early life #learned #life #myself

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#already #aware #away #cyberspace #fifty

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#annual #dear #her #poor #preparing

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#classical #country #days #early #even

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#conclude #fact #good #in fact #in other words

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#case #did #expectations #first #had

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#essentially #few #haven #problem #technologies