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I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 05:09 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #holmes #sherlock #ascandalinbohemia #analysis #bias #biasconfirmation #conclusion #data #datacollection #distortion #information #insufficientdata #prejudice #speculation #theorizing #theory

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/5…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 05:09 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #holmes #sherlock #ascandalinbohemia #analysis #bias #biasconfirmation #conclusion #data #datacollection #distortion #information #insufficientdata #prejudice #speculation #theorizing #theory

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/5…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 05:09 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #holmes #sherlock #ascandalinbohemia #analysis #bias #biasconfirmation #conclusion #data #datacollection #distortion #information #insufficientdata #prejudice #speculation #theorizing #theory

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/5…

#theorizing #ascandalinbohemia #biasconfirmation #insufficientdata #datacollection #speculation

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 05:09 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #holmes #sherlock #ascandalinbohemia #analysis #bias #biasconfirmation #conclusion #data #datacollection #distortion #information #insufficientdata #prejudice #speculation #theorizing #theory

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/5…

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American Buddhist Net @[email protected] · 2026-05-06 · 19:20 UTC

Did Ehud Barak’s Toka Spyware Edit The Losee Roof Video To Pin Charlie Kirk’s Murder On An Innocent Man?!

We finally have the name of the weapon used to manufacture the “official narrative” of the Charlie Kirk assassination. It isn’t a firearm—it’s a Israeli dystopian hacking software called Toka.
The Software:Co-founded by former Israeli PM Ehud Barak (the same man tied to Jeffrey Epstein), Toka is designed to infiltrate any connected camera system. Its specific “selling point” to intelligence agencies? The ability to edit video feeds in real-time or recorded history so seamlessly that forensic investigators can’t find a single digital fingerprint.
The Frame-Up: For months, witnesses have insisted they saw the true “assassin” dressed in all black on the roof. Yet, the “official” footage released to the public showed a person they claim was Tyler Robinson. This is where the technology comes in:
Digital Erasure: Toka allows operators to literally “brush out” an individual—like the assassin in black—and replace them with a background or a different figure entirely.
Real-Time & Retrospective Editing: Experts have confirmed that the software can access any web-connected camera—including those in parking lots, hotels, and airports—and alter both live feeds and past recordings.
Zero Digital Footprint: Unlike other spyware that leaves a “digital fingerprint,” Toka is designed to modify video pixels without leaving any telltale signs of a hack. This makes it impossible for forensic investigators to prove a video has been tampered with.
“Ocean’s Eleven” Capabilities: Media outlets like Haaretz have compared the technology to the heist movie Ocean’s Eleven, where a live feed is diverted to a “mock” version of reality while the real event is happening undetected.
This explains why the footage of “Tyler” on the Losee building rooftop is physically impossible. The figure has no shadow that matches the sun’s position. Why? Because the software is perfect at altering pixels, but it can’t account for the complex physics of light and shadow in a 3D space.
Manufacturing the Narrative: If they can edit the past without leaving a trace, they can “place” Tyler on that roof at the exact moment they need him to be there to satisfy the mainstream media script.
We are witnessing the birth of a new kind of lawfare: Digital Assassination. They don’t just kill the target; they use foreign-funded technology to frame the innocent and erase the guilty.
The pixels are lying, but the physics don’t. It’s time to look past the “official” feed.
Toka’s marketing literally promises to “save operators from exposure.” If a foreign-linked entity wanted to eliminate a political threat like Charlie Kirk while ensuring their operative was never seen, this is the exact tool they would use.

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A major flaw in the video above is the subject on the roof has no shadow. This provides credence that the Toka technology, which cannot do shadows, was used. ABN

#abn #crime #espionage #fraud #infiltration #speculation #technology #weaponry

#abn #crime #espionage #fraud #infiltration #speculation

American Buddhist Net @[email protected] · 2026-05-06 · 18:03 UTC

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions.

I doubt it will be able to know on its own what questions we want to ask. In that respect, we will have knowledge or information AI does not have.

AI will also not know what we humans are going to ask each other or say to each other. And only a human interlocutor can answer a subjective question we ask them about themself.

Only humans have complex subjectivity which is difficult for us to figure out. AI may be able to help us with that to some degree.

But how will it help us with the complex subjectivity that exists between two or more humans?

With the help of some sort of brain monitoring device worn or embedded in a human, AI will have some calculable grasp on our subjectivity.

Would it ever be good enough to be a substitute for a human companion?

Is subjectivity anything else but confusion within the human system? Or is it a nonrational transient appraisal or measure of the system?

Subjectivity can be beautiful, ugly, inspiring, boring, intriguing, illusory.

FIML may wind up being the only thing humans can do that AI cannot do. ABN

#abn #AI #art #CommunicationErrors #culturalNorms #psycholinguistics #speculation

#abn #ai #art #communicationerrors #culturalnorms #psycholinguistics

Eric Maugendre about carbon @[email protected] · 2026-04-29 · 15:55 UTC

Thomas F. Woodlock: "The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

cited by Edwin Lefèvre in his book "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator"

#stocksMarkets #trading #traders #finance #speculation #quote #quotes #markets

#markets #quotes #quote #speculation #finance #traders

American Buddhist Net @[email protected] · 2026-04-27 · 17:51 UTC

REVEALED: THE “BALLROOM” AND “RADICAL LEFTISM” PSYOPS ARE COVER FOR A “STARGATE COMMAND” UNDERGROUND DATA CENTER & PALANTIR-STYLE MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE — Sam Parker

THE BALLROOM
Trump is building a 90,000 square foot ballroom with a 1,000 person capacity. Hardly adequate for the White House Correspondents Dinner which was attended by 2,600 people. But we’re told that we need the ballroom in order to host events like the WHCD in the future. Bullsh*t.
COST & LOCATION
The cost has ballooned to over $300-$400 million. We’re told it’s being privately funded and being sold on that as being a good thing that won’t cost the taxpayers. Here’s the reality: private funding means no congressional oversight or appropriations, no budget hearings, no public scrutiny.
Furthermore, when infrastructure is part of the Executive Office of the President at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, it can be CLASSIFIED under “executive privilege.” The entire executive branch will be able to run this data center without oversight or checks & balances.
…LEAD ARCHITECT
Shalom Baranes, a jewish immigrant to the US via the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), has been appointed architect. Previously, Baranes was the architect for the post-911 hardening & rebuilding of a little building called the Pentagon. SCIFs, bomb-proofing, compartmentalization, etc.—the whole 9 yards. Baranes has no expertise designing ballrooms, that I could find. But he did help renovate one at the National Red Cross Headquarters once. Besides his renovation of Pentagon Wedges 2-5, he’s also done the U.S. Treasury Building modernization, and the Department of the Interior Headquarters & GSA National Headquarters renovations. It seems his talents center around building secure federal infrastructure, not event halls.
…CONCLUSION
They’re building a Stargate Command bunker under the ballroom, and they need us to buy the ballroom narrative bullsh*t in order to gin up public support to ram this through against the opposition it’s currently facing.
This facility will most likely be the nerve center hub of the new “national security” Palantir spy infrastructure and digital control grid panopticon. In short, an essential facility to continue helping to enslave us, and putting any oversight by WE THE PEOPLE beyond our control. For israel’s benefit, and the jewish global empire-national security state blob.
I don’t think so. I’m America First & Only, and israel/ballroom LAST.

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#espionage #infiltration #information #speculation #technology #totalitarianism

People @[email protected] · 2026-04-27 · 00:02 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/people/45360/ A Timeline of Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson’s Relationship #ambassador #BettinaAnderson #BusinessInsider #DonaldTrumpJr #greece #inauguration #KimberlyGuilfoyle #model #month #NumerousWhiteHouseEvent #PalmBeachGala #relationship #son #speculation #timeline #Trump

#trump #timeline #speculation #son #relationship #palmbeachgala

Truth Collector @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 21:54 UTC

☑️ 🏦 Banks re-loan my money while I 'think it's stored in the #bank 🚨

☑️ Loans dilute / cheapen the whole pool of money each time a loan is created.

☑️ 💸 Newly added "money" (loans from loans) reduces the value of all existing money.

☑️ Loans add more #power to #banks via high-return investments / #bad projects / #speculation / #gambling.

☑️ Banks pay / #finance #industrial #warfare (often both sides) for #planes #guns #tanks etc...

#Poll #Banks #Money WE pay for #wars via #Banks & #Loans

#bank #power #banks #bad #speculation #gambling

Mimi @[email protected] · 2026-04-23 · 21:08 UTC

US Narcissistic Psychopath's delusion of the day : Racket de la planète entière

Traduction de l'air de pipeau que nous joue aujourd'hui le roi US des pédophiles :
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À ceux, moins nombreux que jamais, qui lisent encore le déclinant New York Times ou regardent Fake News CNN et qui pensent que je suis "inquiet" d'arriver à mettre fin à la guerre avec l'Iran (si tant est qu'on puisse l'appeler ainsi !), sachez que je suis probablement la personne la moins stressée à s'être jamais retrouvé dans cette situation. J'ai tout le temps possible mais l'Iran, lui, n'en a pas : le temps presse ! La raison pour laquelle certains médias ont aussi peu d'audience est qu'ils ont perdu toute crédibilité. La marine iranienne gît au fond de la mer, son armée de l'air est anéantie, ses armes antiaériennes et radars ont disparu, ses dirigeants ne sont plus parmi nous, le blocus est implacable et la situation ne fait qu'empirer : le temps joue contre eux ! Un accord ne sera conclu que lorsqu'il sera opportun et bénéfique pour les États-Unis d'Amérique, nos alliés et, en réalité, pour le reste du monde. Président Disk Jockey Trump
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Subséquemment, dans ce délire manipulareur voulant donner comme d'habitude l'illusion qu'il contrôle tout, il avoue ouvertement par sa dernière phrase que son objectif n'est pas la réouverture du passage au trafic international mais de le garder fermé pour permettre aux spéculateurs ayant bénéficié de ses délits d'initiés de maximuser leurs profits sur a montée imminente du prix du baril que cette fermeture induit ( = "opportun et bénéfique pour les États-Unis d'Amérique, nos alliés") . et ensuite seulement soulager enfin l'économie mondiale de son chantage spéculatif "perso" fait à toute la planète pour lequel cette agression de l'Iran n'est qu'un prétexte "suggéré" par la mafia nazioniste (= "et, en réalité, pour le reste du monde").

C'est sans doute une façon confortable pour lui de faire payer le monde entier des sommes astronomiques à ses soutiens économico-politiques sans que ça lui coûte un sou pour se les garder en remparts "MAGA" efficaces contre la menace des #EpsteinFiles qui auraient dû le conduire, depuis des mois maintenant, en prison et sans doute dans leur couloir de la mort en tant que #pedophile #serialkiller et violeur multi-récidiviste.

La perversion narcissique pathologique, c'est exactement ça.

(image via @QudsNen )

#US #Iran #israel #corruption #speculation

#epsteinfiles #pedophile #serialkiller #us #iran #israel

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-04-02 · 18:30 UTC

Oh great, another spec! 🎉 The JSON Canvas #Spec is here to revolutionize *absolutely nothing* by giving us a thrilling way to organize nodes and edges—because that's what we all need more of in our lives: ordered lists of z-indexed pixels. 😴 Meanwhile, real-world developers collectively yawn and return to solving actual problems. 🛠️
https://jsoncanvas.org/spec/1.0/ #JSONCanvas #Speculation #DeveloperHumor #SpecOverload #PixelPondering #RealWorldDev #HackerNews #ngated

#spec #jsoncanvas #speculation #developerhumor #specoverload #pixelpondering

BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-03-24 · 00:52 UTC

Placing bets on war, suffering and environmental destruction
Speculating on online prediction markets is rapidly becoming a feature of modern warfare.

Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts "New online accounts on Polymarket platform betting a total of $70,000 suggest ‘some degree of inside info." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/bets-us-iran-ceasefire-show-signs-of-insider-knowledge-say-experts-polymarket

Anonymous gamblers have made millions betting on the events of the Middle East war, prompting US politicians to call for a ban on such speculation. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-11/iran-polymarket-anonymous-gamblers-made-millions-betting/106433384

#war #speculation #MilitaryConflicts #ConfidentialInformation #InsiderInformation #InsiderKnowledge #gambling #warfare #GamblingService #PredictionMarket #InsiderTrading #crime #regulation #necropolitics #Deathworlds

#war #speculation #militaryconflicts #insiderinformation #insiderknowledge #gambling

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-16 · 16:05 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision

We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.

[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-03-10 · 05:13 UTC

🎉 Oh wow, #RVA23 has finally toppled Speculation's tyrannical reign in #RISC-V CPUs! Because nothing screams cutting-edge like an impenetrable wall of buzzwords and vendor names that no one asked for. 🙄 #GameChanger #zzzz
https://semiwiki.com/ip/risc-v/367094-rva23-ends-speculations-monopoly-in-risc-v-cpus/ #CPUs #Speculation #GameChanger #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

#rva23 #risc #gamechanger #zzzz #cpus #speculation

Afrique @[email protected] · 2026-03-04 · 14:12 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/afrique/32695/ Expropriation pour utilité publique: ce qui va changer! ##ÉconomieMarocaine ##Expropriation ##Foncier ##Propriété ##Rétrocession ##UtilitéPublique #digitalisation #gouvernance #indemnisation #infrastructures #Législation #Maroc #réforme #spéculation #transparence #urbanisation

#urbanisation #transparence #speculation #reforme #maroc #legislation

Frontend Dogma @[email protected] · 2026-01-26 · 19:55 UTC

Performance, by @25prathamesh.bsky.social and @aarontgrogg.com and others (@httparchive.org):

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/performance

#webalmanac #studies #research #metrics #performance #webvitals #hints #speculation

#speculation #hints #webvitals #performance #metrics #research

BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2025-11-02 · 02:22 UTC

The housing shortage and wealth accumulation in Australia.
Houses/ 'homes' as commercial enterprises

" In Australia, the origin of the idea that housing is to be valued primarily as a commodity for producing private wealth is colonisation. It is part of our creation story. " Former Victorian Supreme Court justice Kevin Bell.
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/need-for-housing-inspires-artist/105939626

Plan to apply commercial council rates for short-stay rentals
"These properties operate as a commercial enterprise...They generate income and place higher demand on infrastructure and social services, similar to any hotel or motel."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/mount-gambier-council-short-stay-rates-airbnb-changes/105943950
#housing #homes #IndigenousDisplacement #unhoused #inequality #insecurity #Airbnb #shortterm #accommodation #speculation #traffic #TourismImpacts #MultipleProperties #BellingenShire #commercialisation #suburbia #BAU #MeInc #SettlerSociety #narrative #landlordism #rentierisation

#housing #homes #indigenousdisplacement #unhoused #inequality #insecurity

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-08-01 · 17:58 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #concern #facereality #focus #future #meme #misfortune #possibility #present #problemsolving #problems #reality #speculation #troubles #worry #immediacy

Our minds are better employed in bearing the misfortunes that do befall us than in foreseeing those that may.

[Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶174 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-08-01 · 17:58 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #concern #facereality #focus #future #meme #misfortune #possibility #present #problemsolving #problems #reality #speculation #troubles #worry #immediacy

Our minds are better employed in bearing the misfortunes that do befall us than in foreseeing those that may.

[Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶174 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quotes #quote #meme #future #reality #focus

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-08-01 · 17:58 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #concern #facereality #focus #future #meme #misfortune #possibility #present #problemsolving #problems #reality #speculation #troubles #worry #immediacy

Our minds are better employed in bearing the misfortunes that do befall us than in foreseeing those that may.

[Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶174 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#immediacy #larochefoucauld #facereality #misfortune #speculation #possibility

Dan Vieira @[email protected] · 2025-05-31 · 21:41 UTC

🤔 To make housing more affordable, drop the tax hammer on real estate investors (🎁 link) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4ef08e3f17e3e79da7da921dff91e650ad61f5aae765a74cd327766b274581e6/APG4OJGABNGWRDVBABTGPBIIBM/ #tore #vanre #toronto #topoli #cdnecon #cdnpoli #speculation #realestate #econ #housing

#tore #toronto #topoli #cdnecon #cdnpoli #speculation

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-05-23 · 15:43 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation #youth

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

#quotes #quote #books #adventure #sciencefiction #author

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-05-23 · 15:43 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation #youth

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

#quotes #quote #books #adventure #sciencefiction #author

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-05-23 · 15:43 UTC

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation @youth

#quotes #quote #books #adventure #sciencefiction #author

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-05-23 · 15:43 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation #youth

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

#iconoclasm #respectability #speculation #idealism #optimism #quotation

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-05-23 · 15:43 UTC