Some things I noticed 08/31/2020:
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury Centennial Read-a-thon
- “Pity, Montag, pity. Don’t haggle and nag them; you were so recently one of them yourself.” — Faber
- “When I was young I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” — Faber
- “Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he’s the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with your books.” — Beatty ?
- “Tonight, bums on the outside, libraries inside.” — Granger
- “An Essay on Criticism” — Alexander Pope
- “A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring”
- “Some valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind; Fondly we think we honour merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.”
- “‘Tis best sometimes your censure to restrain, And charitably let the dull be vain”
- “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
- “Protesters responded to a report that Jeff Bezos is the first man to be worth $200 billion by building a guillotine in front of his house.“
- “I’ll never be a professor or an actor or write a book, and my crêpes are so-so but not restaurant quality“
- “The goal is to force anyone who might want to compete with Amazon to put themselves in legal jeopardy.” ?
- “Unless you are exploiting people and resources for personal gain at scale, you are not a capitalist.“
- “Kono said Esper had confirmed that the U.S.-Japan security treaty covered East China Sea islets, Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyu in China.“
- “Suplexocracy is the only legitimately awesome form of government.“
- 163 braces — 飛機場的10:30, 別問很可怕, 與浪之間, 成大新生晚會
- “Move over, Ramanujan!” ?