"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
 - Emily Dickinson
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A healthy technology will be as much art as machinery. Currently,
however, the elimination of the qualitative and artistic dimension from
consideration, leaving us with a naked skeleton of logic and algorithm,
is more or less what defines technology. - Steve Talbott, NetFuture
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If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them
in the guise of programs! - Alan J. Perlis, SICP
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Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.
 - Julia Roberts in the "Notting Hill" movie, with reference
    to a Chagall painting
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I hope I can make it across the border.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope. - Red, "The Shawshank Redemption" movie, 1994
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Sure I'll pick Shakespeare apart any day, with or without regular
expressions. I'll even put his Collected Works on an operating table
under bright lights, and cut into it with a scalpel, just to hear the
romantics bleat.
 - Kirby Urner, April 2005
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In the "A Bicentennial Man" film of a robot's search to become more
human, we feel more strongly the precious gift of our own humanity.
That is all we can ask of any work of art.
 - Austin C. Beeman, December 2001
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For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600
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But when I'm alone in the half-light of the canyon,
all existence seems to fade to a being with my soul and memories,
and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm
and the hope that a fish will rise.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
 - Norman Maclean, A river runs through it, 1976
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What is this life if, full of care,
we have no time to stand and stare.
 - W.H. Davies, Leisure
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I don't think [artists] are there to be the "voice of the People",
even if it sometimes seems to work that way. I think artists are
there to amaze, to inspire, to challenge, and to open our minds and
hearts. On a basic, tribal level, I think the artist should be the
shaman. All too often, in our culture, he's the village idiot.
 - Joe Jackson, A Cure for Gravity, 1999
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Q: What are you doing?
A: Spinning counterclockwise
   Each turn robs the planet of angular momentum
   Slowing its spin the tiniest bit
   Lenghtening the night, pushing back the dawn
   Giving me a little more time here
   With you
 - Randall Munroe, http://xkcd.com/162/ , September 2006
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Watch Firefly, see Serenity, tell your friends.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Any questions? Shiny.
 - Greg Robinson, August 2005