(#112040102317671508) #flatlyUnreasonable #qotd "But who could expect a melancholy, inscrutable hero to see the humorous side of things? It would be flatly unreasonable."

(#112502431716867978) #qotd "Talvez seja possível que haja ainda alguma diskette perdida num lar Lamecense com um instalador de ICQ infectado com o seu trabalho..."

(#112651998932756648) #qotd "I wonder," said Miss Oliver, "if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it."

(#112111879778530162) #fairies #qotd "The world always will have fairies. It can’t get along without them. And somebody has to supply them."

(#112100527853985369) Desafios de escrever a #História #qotd Num livro de História, o autor decide citar em vez de dizer, para evitar críticas de "algum erudito de meia tijela".

(#112654310010526685) Another #qotd, also about elections in #Canada (now in 1917) "Conscription is the real issue at stake and it will be the most exciting election we ever had. All the women 'who have got de age'—to quote Jo Poirier, and who have husbands, sons, and brothers at the front, can vote. Oh, if I were only twenty-one! Gertrude and Susan are both furious because they can't vote."

(#112170617785732208) #qotd "I’m glad I don’t live in Yesterday . . . that Tomorrow is still a friend."

#QOTD : If you could redesign a fundamental internet protocol from scratch, which one would you choose and how would you improve it?

#qotd "I’m glad I don’t live in Yesterday . . . that Tomorrow is still a friend."

(#111561783242888020) #qotd #scifi A picture of a book page with a quote from "Haraway, 2003, p. 149" stating that "the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion".