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We Are Always Acting On What Has Just Finished Happening.
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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened
at least one-thirtieth of a second ago. We think we're in the present,
but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
-- Tom Wolfe
Related:
We now present the conclusion of...The Never-ending Story.
-- From a cable TV broadcast of the movie...
When we say something happened by chance, we really mean we don't know what caused it.
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s.
We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses....
This is an unprecedented incident but we do know it has happened before.
We must understand how the past affects us, we should keep the present full of rich and satisfying experiences, and we should devote some energy each day to building for the future.
-- Deng Ming-Dao...
We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time.
But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own....
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
We do not feel this patient has any significant physical disease at the present time, and for this reason we have advised her to return to you.