New In Box Feature: Mysterygram of the Day

People have been blogging for millenia, right? That’s what epigrams are: little, pithy bits that go viral through a culture.

I come across these cool passages all the time. So here’s the new game: I’ll mine these chunks of wisdom (and sheer cleverness) from the universe.

You see if you can guess who said it. And if you use Google or some other search engine, be sure to cop to that fact in your answer…

Answers in the comment section below. And if nobody else gets it, I’ll give the correct answer in the next day’s Mysterygram. We’ll start with a toughy.

Our civilization is characterized by the word ‘progress.’ Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features.

Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself.

For me, on the contrary, clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.