``There is no such thing at the microscopic level as space or time or spacetime continuum." -- J. A. Wheeler (about 1990).

``I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward." -- R. W. Emerson, in ``Self Reliance'' (1839). More texts here and here.

``It (the universe) is nothing vague or wasteful, it does not stretch into infinity; but is a definite quantum of energy located in limited space, and not in space that would be anywhere empty. It is rather energy everywhere, the play of forces and force-waves, at the same time one and many, agglomerating here and diminishing there, a sea of forces storming and raging in itself, forever changing, forever rolling back over incalculable ages to recurrence, with an ebb and flow of its forms, producing the most complicated things out of the most simple structures." -- F. Nietzsche (about 1880).

``I love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgment day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak, and love. And Mother. And God." --Johnny Cash (1996).

``Sometimes at night. When I hear the wind. I wish I was crazy again." --Johnny Cash (1996).

``If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects." --Albert Einstein.

``One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts." --Albert Einstein.

``Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals." --Albert Einstein.

The Man Watching, by Rainer Maria Rilke: Rilke_poem.

A commencement speech about life, by Steve Jobs: Jobs_speech.