Long DNA

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or dna:

“I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)