I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
