Comments on: Long Quotes: Jonas Salk http://blog.longnow.org/2010/07/18/long-quotes/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Yhu64 http://blog.longnow.org/2010/07/18/long-quotes/comment-page-1/#comment-21798 Yhu64 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:32:51 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=2791#comment-21798 i love thess bahhaaa i love thess bahhaaa

]]> By: Matt Warren http://blog.longnow.org/2010/07/18/long-quotes/comment-page-1/#comment-21018 Matt Warren Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:33:30 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=2791#comment-21018 I'm not sure if you think this qualifies, but I think having a healthy perspective on our existence is pretty long-now-ish:<br><br>"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." - Douglas Adams I'm not sure if you think this qualifies, but I think having a healthy perspective on our existence is pretty long-now-ish:

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” – Douglas Adams

]]> By: Maria Haanpää http://blog.longnow.org/2010/07/18/long-quotes/comment-page-1/#comment-21015 Maria Haanpää Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:52:27 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=2791#comment-21015 "Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future." “Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”

]]> By: Gert Van Waelvelde http://blog.longnow.org/2010/07/18/long-quotes/comment-page-1/#comment-21013 Gert Van Waelvelde Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:26:21 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=2791#comment-21013 "Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor"<br>- Horace<br><br>This can apply to people, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, art, ... “Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor”
- Horace

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