#thinkable

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ↗

— William Gibson

#city #clusters #complexity #computer #constellations

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. ↗

— Andre Gide

#arrive #cross #frenchman #having #honor

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#entire #nothing #thought #unless #unthinkable

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#comes #dedicated #development #further #impossible

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#impossible #must #precisely #thought #unthinkable

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#now #seemed #starting #things #thinkable

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

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#both #common #context #cultural #dante

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago? ↗

— Randall Terry

#america #children #down #down the road #horrors

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#now #september #thinkable #unthinkable #world