Technology Quote by Terry Pratchett

“He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities…

— Thomas Hardy

“Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to…

— Henry James

“He did all this with great concentration in order to keep his thoughts at bay, in order to let them in only one at…

— José Saramago

“There was the presence only of essentials. It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could do her…

— Mason Currey

“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back.…

— Laini Taylor

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done…

— Christopher Paolini

“I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Even more useful, he also possessed some eerily precocious form of sage-like wisdom that allowed him to greet both failure and victory as imposters.”

— Mark Frost

“and, most of all, of how much could be accomplished with just a little thought.”

— Norton Juster

“I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient…

— Samuel Butler

“The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him…

— Thomas Hughes

“The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them,…

— Peter Pouncey