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“The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.”
“There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.”
| James F. Amos, Soldier (1946) |
| Roland Barthes, Critic (1915) |
| Richard Baxter, Clergyman (1615) |
| Michael Ende, Writer (1929) |
| Ernie Fletcher, Politician (1952) |
| Kathleen Hanna, Musician (1969) |
| Tonya Harding, Athlete (1970) |
| Anne Hathaway, Actress (1982) |
| Dolores Ibarruri, Politician (1895) |
| Grace Kelly, Actress (1929) |
| Joseph Cannon, Politician (1926) |
| Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist (1865) |
| Umberto Giordano, Composer (1948) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1997) |