The Curious Autodidact

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1972- )

The butterfly counts not years but moments and has time enough. -Rabindranath Tagore

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

-Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- )

Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste … Let’s put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn’t get our deposit back. -John Ross

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. -Alice Kahn