Silliman Quotes

#1. Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.

Benjamin Silliman

#2. It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our kingship if we bow down to Nature. It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.

Bertrand Russell

#3. BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST

Ron Silliman

#4. Q: Why bother doing proofs about programming languages? They are almost always boring if the definitions are right.
A: The definitions are almost always wrong.

- Anonymous

Benjamin C. Pierce

#5. You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly
-Baby Carlyle

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#6. My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. how
does this outer life, apocalypse
reported, penetrate my dreams

Ron Silliman

#8. Here, for a moment, we are joined.

Ron Silliman

#9. Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

Ron Silliman

#11. art is
a mode of stalking

Ron Silliman

#12. Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

Richard Dawkins

#13. I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Tim Robbins