As You Make Your Bed, So You

It Is Only A Short Step From Exaggerating What We Can Find In The World To Exaggerating Our Power To Remake The World. Expecting More Novelty Than There Is, More Greatness Than There Is, And More Strangeness Than There Is, We Imagine Ourselves Masters Of A Plastic Universe. But A World We Can Shape To Our Will Is A Shapeless World.

Time Makes Heroes But Dissolves Celebrities.

The Celebrity Is A Person Who Is Known For His Well-knownness.

The American Experience Stirred Mankind From Discovery To Exploration. From The Cautious Quest For What They Knew (or Thought They Knew) Was Out There, Into An Enthusiastic Reaching To The Unknown. These Are Two Substantially Different Kinds Of Human Enterprise.

The Computer Can Help Us Find What We Know Is There. But The Book Remains Our Symbol And Our Resource For The Unimagined Question And The Unwelcome Answer.