Acceleration Quote by Susan Sontag

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new…

— Susan Sontag

It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that people are…

— Michel Foucault

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a…

— Carroll Quigley

Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and…

— Norman Davies

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of…

— Carroll Quigley

“Drawing on the best modern scholarship, this book seeks to rescue the history of networks from the clutches of the conspiracy theorists, and to…

— Niall Ferguson

History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps…

— Leo Strauss

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that…

— Max Planck

I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth…

— Ann Voskamp

“Cars typically become unreliable after a decade of use.”

— Steven Magee

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

— Garrett Hardin

Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.

— Larry Sanger