Nay, a tumblelog.

For all is but a woven web of guesses.

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say ‘It is our duty to remain optimists,’ this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.

Let us cut loose from all the ties that bind us to others; let us win from ourselves the power to live really alone and to live that way at our ease.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Nullius in verba.

[Garfield] refused to seek an appointment or promotion of any kind. ‘I suppose I am morbidly sensitive about any reference to my own achievements,’ he admitted. ‘I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.’”

“He had sternly instructed his backers that ‘first, I should make no pledge to any man or any measures; second, I should not work for my own nomination.’”

“After a landslide victory [for election to the U.S. Senate], his campaign’s expenses amounted to less than $150

The imagination will not perform until it has been flooded by a vast torrent of reading.
Announced Petronius.
You have to read fifteen hundred books in order to write one.
Flaubert put it.

Venomously malignant. Noxious. Blasphemous. Grotesque. Disgusting. Repulsive. Entirely bestial. Indecent.
Being among the critical greetings for Leaves of Grass.
Not to omit ithyphallic audacity.
Plus garbage.

Profound stupidity. Maniacal raving. Pure nonsense.
Among some for the best of Shelley.
Which was also called abominable.
Infantile. Absurd. Driveling. Nauseating.
Reserved for Wordsworth.

The old triumvirate of tyrants in the human soul, the libido sciendi, the libido sentiendi, and the libido dominandi [the lust of the mind, the lust of the flesh and the lust for power], is just as powerful today as it ever was, and no one can ignore its tyranny with impunity.