Past Meets Present Thinker Gifts

"I'm afraid we don't think you're really henge material."

'It's not easy being ahead of your time.'

Historical memory is on life support.

"Eat not of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Its sources have yet to be verified."

'They look more up to date than the ones in your tool-box.'

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

Ideas Ahead of their Time

"I liked the fee-fi-fo-fum part, but I found the rest of his speech racist and repellent."

"I'd like to TikTok your offer and get comments before saying yes or no."

'Don't worry about the thumb sucking...she'll be texting with it soon enough.'

'We never had all these labour-saving devices in my young day!'

"Good old Frank. He was always thinking of others."

What every man thinks to himself when he puts on a pink shirt.

"Fellas, I invited Max here to give us a fresh, millennial take on how to get out of the inning."

'Of course he didn't believe the stork story. Try telling him we made him with a 3D printer.'

'Marx and Engels - why they split.'

'Egad! It's the ghosts of sanity past!'

Max Weber

RIP William Shakespeare: To be or not to be...

"If you prayed to Google instead of God, you might get a constructive response."

"I think you're suffering from nostalgia, Mr. Prentice."

'I ink, therefore I am....'

"This looks good, Jim, but we'd better run it by legal, Siri, and Alexa."

"Honey, close the fridge door while you're thinking!"

'Man, I'm sick of thinking...can't someone flip on a T.V. or something?'

Auguste Comte

'I've got a highspeed connection and I get spam... therefore I am!'

'An ebook! What are you reading?' 'Against technology: From the Luddites to neo-Luddism.'

Trade-Offs

Why not get God's fax number, and just fax him my prayer?

Lady Jane Grey

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

"Already my computer is outmoded, but i try to tell myself that my computer isn't ME."

Seneca

A man takes a selfie with an Egyptian mummy