As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is...
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or ru...
Where there is power, there is resistance.
God abhors a naked singularity.
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it alwa...
Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it? ‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4. ‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his ow...
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given ins...
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
I wanted to live among books.
Life happened because I turned the pages.
Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.
Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
