„More often than not, one meets technicians, nimble keyboardists by profession, who … indeed astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities“

„There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.“

—  Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

[199806201726.KAA26569@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

„It was G. K. Chesterton who trenchantly reminded us that, if one was going to preach, then it was more sensible to expend one's energies on addressing the converted rather than the unconverted. It was the former, after all, that were—and even more so are—in constant danger of missing the point and sliding away from the Faith into some vague sort of syncretistic, gnostic, gobbledegook. Chesterton, as ever, was right and should you think this is just another of his tiresome paradoxes may I urge you to re-read him: his prescience concerning our present situation and, worse, where we are heading is astounding.“

—  Simon Conway Morris British palaeontologist 1951

The Boyle lecture (2005)

„Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.“

—  Philip Reeve English children's writer and illustrator 1966

„The Will-be and the Has-been touch us more nearly than the Is. So we are more tender towards children and old people than to those who are in the prime of life.“

—  Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902

Future and Past
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

„Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.“

—  Sydney J. Harris American journalist 1917 - 1986

Pieces of Eight (1982)

„Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.“

—  Elizabeth Bibesco writer, actress; Romanian princess 1897 - 1945

Haven (1951)

„Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind… then what is the difference between this world and a dream?“

—  Kaori Ozaki Japanese mangaka 1976

Zdroj: Immortal Rain, Vol. 1

„Always go for the one who touches your heart more than your body.“

—  Ralph Smart

„I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.“

—  Roald Dahl British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter 1916 - 1990

„Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.“

—  Buckminster Fuller American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist 1895 - 1983

R. Buckminster Fuller on Education (University of Massachusetts Press, 1979), p. 130
1970s
Kontext: Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.

„We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.“

—  Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970

Zdroj: Sceptical Essays

„One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.“

—  Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

„Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.“

—  Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

„For Kant, the predisposition to good (like Calvin’s ‘seed of goodness’) is in one way more fundamental to us than the overlying propensity to evil, and in one way it is less fundamental. The predisposition to good is more fundamental because it is essential to us; we cannot lose it without ceasing to be human. The propensity to evil is in that way less fundamental, because we can lose it, and indeed we should lose it, without ceasing to be human. On the other hand, the propensity to evil is in a different way more fundamental. It is our root maxim when we are born.“

—  John E. Hare British philosopher 1949

Zdroj: “Evolutionary Theory and Theological Ethics” (2012), p. 251

„In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet
They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!“

—  Eleanor Farjeon, Nursery Rhymes of London Town

Fleet Street
Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1916)

„To lead in an ever-changing world, leaders must adapt and stay nimble.“

—  Indra Nooyi Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive 1955

„“True is it indeed, that without an Abiding and Active in us the transitory and sensible is impossible. As the case has been forcibly put in a saying that deserves to become classic, "Our unconditioned universality is the ground of our existence," — its ground, that is, at once its necessary condition and its sufficient reason.”“

—  George Holmes Howison American philosopher 1834 - 1916

Zdroj: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Later German Philosophy, p.178

„His face was tense with pain. But then, who notices when they meet a theatre critic whose face is tense with pain? It is one of the marks of the profession.“

—  Robertson Davies, kniha Murther and Walking Spirits

Part 1, section 2.
Murther and Walking Spirits (1991)

„Despite their old marketing campaign, Apple is not the company "for the rest of us." Apple's primary goal is meeting Apple's goals, often without regard to who is hurt along the way.“

—  David Gewirtz American journalist

How many American jobs will Steve Jobs destroy? http://zdnet.com/blog/government/how-many-american-jobs-will-steve-jobs-destroy/9139 in ZDNet (22 June 2010)