June 2026 Selected Quotes

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

- Anne Frank

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“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.”

- William Gibson

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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.”

- George Eliot

(Notable in our time because this is what Generative AI (chatbots) will not do.)

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“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”

- John Tukey

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“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

- Paul McCartney

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“The calendar is full of invitations to re-decide.”

- Seth Godin

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“That which can be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain will be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain.”

- Joe Weisenthal

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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”

- Pearl S. Buck

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“Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”

- Paul Klee

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“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”

- Czeslaw Milosz

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“One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg