QUOTES by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) - Writer of "Fahrenheit 451"

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

Wow ~ he is great. I mean, but he can't say like this because not everyone can understand stuffs just by reading about 5 times or 1000 times. Not everyone want to learn and study. Why is he so harsh on people?

“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.”
― Ray Bradbury

Like he said before, not everyone got money. He needs to consider the convience and the changing environment. the generation gap between him and I are so great, but he is PARTLY right. Books are way better than mobile and notebooks.

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury

But we still got to try, right? Who knows maybe we can convince if we talked with really good points and reasons and maybe they will listen. I think he must be a real stubborn people, or not a good talker.

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury

That's deep. I don't think I understand but I think I somewhat understand.

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

He's right you know. We should. There's no reason we should be breathing and living like a robot or taking every good thing happened in our life granted. 

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
― Ray Bradbury

"The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are."

NOthing is truer than this! MY MIND IS BLOWNED!