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Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years. As co-authors Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt stated…

— Robert Scoble

“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never…

— Richard Adams

[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

— Elizabeth Kolbert

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind…

— Salman Rushdie

I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

— Mindy Kaling

“, repeatedly visiting the online baby calendar to see what stage of growth the baby would have been in.”

— Deanna Roy

“Big data makes us feel as though we can and should know everything there is to know on earth. But this is a fool’s…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet…

— Roman Payne

“During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus…

— Milan Kundera

'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is…

— Lawrence Osborne

I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son Odyssey, and…

— Daniel Mendelsohn