#ink

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #bore #ever #everybody #i

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? ↗

— Casey Stengel

#born #did #dugout #guys #i

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#good #got #pennant #start #think

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#drink #drinking #hotel #i #i do

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#baseball #being #better #better off #crazy

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#between #distinction #everywhere #general #i

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

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #conventional #insane #madmen #place