Category: words

  • nevver: ― Ray Bradbury, opening line of Fahrenheit 451

  • hangingfire: Ray Bradbury Comic Con 2009 by enemy2fashion on Flickr. San Diego Comic Con, 2009. Bruce and I were fighting our way across the convention floor when we hit the worst bottleneck you ever saw. Me: What’s going on?Bruce: (looks through the crowd) Who’s the old guy in the wheelchair?Me: (sees con badge) Uh. That’s…

  • laughingsquid: Goodbye, Ray Bradbury

  • newyorker: Ray Bradbury has just passed away at age ninety-one. In our most recent issue, Bradbury wrote about what inspired him to write science fiction, and we’ve unlocked the piece: http://nyr.kr/JvTNFV

  • notational: Paraphrasing a plea from Kevin Slavin at Eyeo. ” Can we design systems that instead of harnessing luck UNLEASH it?” Excellent talk.

  • Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people…

  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury (via kateoplis)

  • scottlava: Goodbye, Ray Bradbury!  My favorite author of all time.

  • My inspiration wasn’t the bohemian culture I saw all around me, but a quieter, more bookish one that started when I discovered Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man. I found the book on top of one of the garbage cans behind our building. I dumped our trash and began reading on my way back up the…

  • nutriblog: Guess who got quoted for quoting Ray Bradbury to The Atlantic on Twitter??? This girl. That’s who. Social media is pretty cool. See the article here.