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

(#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."

(#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".

(#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".

#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".

#qotd A screenshot with a quote: "That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

(#112063194906447503) #qotd “You’ll feel differently about a good many things when you get to be my age,” said Janet tolerantly. “That’s one of the things we learn as we grow older—how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”