Quote of the day
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
James H. Billington
Born: June 1, 1929
Died: November 20, 2018 (aged 89)
Bio: James Hadley Billington, the Librarian of Congress Emeritus, was a leading American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions.
Known for:
- Fire in the Minds of Men (1980)
- The Icon and the Axe (1966)
- Russia in Search of Itself (2004)







