speak for yourself Sir, I intend to live forever
-Jonathan Frakes, as William T Riker
A fine intention. But until we make the technology, we are still, after all, only mortal.
"Had we but world enough and time
But we don't
So let's get on with it."
-- Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" (abridged)
This is our monthly thread for collecting these little gems and pearls of wisdom, rationality-related quotes you've seen recently, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages, and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions.