Some nights I lie awake in my bed and pray for a zombie apocalypse...
"Of the 200 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some—perhaps many—may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe."
-Excerpt from Jimmy Carter's contribution to the golden phonograph record.
"No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy."
-William Shakespeare, As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.â€
-G. Wilhelm Leibniz
