世纪
What we do today will determine the climate for centuries to come.
In the new century, I think we will all be insane.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
"In every brushstroke lies the history of centuries."
The city is like a great palimpsest, a manuscript that has been written and rewritten over the centuries.
"The 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion."
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought."
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is a finite problem.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of the centuries.
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.