Calendars Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.”

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It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so…

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More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

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I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

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Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

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The calendar? A mere convention.

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