Are you really satisfied with Bill "my way or the highway" Gates?
The Life of the Mind Nowadays a thinker is a curious creature who during certain hours of the day exhibits a very remarkable ingenuity, but otherwise has nothing in common with a human being. --Soren Kierkegaard
A study of the Western Canon...could hardly neglect Finnegans Wake. More than Ulysses, the Wake is the only authentic rival our century has produced for Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The movement misnamed "multiculturalism," which is altogether anti-intellectual and anti-literary, is removing from the curriculum most works that present imaginative and cognitive difficulties, which means most of the canonical books. Harold Bloom, The Western Canon
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Music is the medium of the human soul in its most ecstatic condition of wonder and terror. Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind (on Plato's Republic and Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy)
Instruction at the college level should begin in the most remote past and only barely touch the present. No teacher has any business telling the young about the present: the young are the present and they are making the future day by day. Every teacher, the moment that he or she steps from the classroom, is already history. Camille Paglia
