"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
The stars near the galactic center are like cosmic clocks, helping us map spacetime.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
夢は、追い続けることに意味がある。
I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.