An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley
I have what passes for an education, but I am not deceived by it.
-- Flannery O'Connor
You aren't a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
-- John Wooten
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-- Buddha
Instead of viewing their mission as teaching WHAT to read and HOW to think, universities in America today view their mission as teaching students HOW to read and WHAT to think.
-- Nicholas A. Christakis (@nachristakis)
Sands can be amazingly beautiful. This is Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
-- Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)
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