This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
No one ever became poor through giving alms.
Those who begin many things finish but a few.
Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |
Clothes are of but little loss, if you escape from drowning.
Computer | Energy | Right | Technology |
All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.
Nature | Technology | Time |
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
Imagination | Knowledge | Light | Technology | Thinking |
But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.
Technology | Vision | Will |
Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
Age | Technology | Will |
GOLLUM: Shut up! BILBO: I didn't say anything... GOLLUM: I wasn't talking to you.
He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.
Technology | Value |
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
Life | Life | Technology | Wants |
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.