Quotable Quotes
- Martin Lee, of Waterstone's Bookshop, quoted in "The Times",
31st July 1997:
- Almost nobody believes that the Internet is ever going to account for
more than 10 per cent of sales.
- tell that to Amazon!
- Pieter Dirk Uys, the South African satirist, speaking on BBC World Service:
- Democracy is all very good and well - but it's TOO good to
share with just anyone.
- Another from the same:
- The future is certain - it is just the past that is unpredictable.
- From "Man at the Top" by Richard Wolff (page 9)
- Not everyone may be called to be a shining button on the waistcoat
of the world....
- From the French Minitel service Assistances au Décès:
- La mort donne a notre personalité une dimension nouvelle.
- Pablo Picasso, in response to a complaint from Gertrude Stein that
the portrait for which she had sat did not look a bit like her:
- It will. It will.
- Instructions to Clergy, from a Bishop
- Please send me a current list of your parishioners
broken down by age and sex
- Notes toward a 25-hour city
- 25 hour city inevitable soon due to increasing leisure from automation
and the need to use expensive equipment continuously to recoup investment in a
few years. But, indeed, why must we wait another 10 years?
- from the International Times, a 1960's "underground" newspaper edited by
Tom McGrath assisted by David Z Mairowitz, based at 102 Southampton Row and
produced fortnightly; this quotation comes from issue number 7 which carried
the memorable headline "Arrest the Home Secretary!".