Children Quote by Philippe Starck

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of…

— Simon McBurney

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming…

— William Gibson

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning…

— Josiah Royce

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we…

— Nikki Giovanni

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

— John Berger

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

“I want my last 50 years on this earth to be amazing. Of course, I still want to have 150 years before those last 50 years begin.”

— Jarod Kintz

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while…

— William Osler

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are…

— Doris Lessing

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it…

— John Ruskin

When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the…

— Vernor Vinge