The lightnings trembled And in thy Silence was his Sentence, And in his Soul a vain repentance, And evil dread so ill dissembled, That in his hand the lightnings trembled. Lord Byron, Prometheus idefiancesilence
How things ought to be It is hard to give up preconceptions of what things “ought to be,” and recognize things as they really are. Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building The way of things wisdom