the dog is not mine, I found it surfing the web, he looked so at a loss that I adopted him, since then we've been getting on quite well

curiosity is the cure for boredom, there's no cure for curiosity
(read somewhere)

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen

"We look on past ages with condescension,
as mere preparation for us... but what
if we're only an after-glow of them?"
The Siege of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell

We go on doing reserach and thinking about all sorts of problems, as if we could one day reach the thought that would set us free Gregory Bateson