Wisdom in SpaceIt is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais
If your brain is always multitasking, or responding to technoprompts, there is no time or energy for undirected mental play. Furthermore, if you are consumed by the same information loop circulating around everyone else, you don't have anything to stimulate you into thinking differently. ... You don't have access to unexpected knowledge. You're just swept along in the same narrow current as everyone else, which is swift but not deep.
-- David Brooks (Newsweek)
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The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your pocket.
-- Will Rogers
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
-- Mark Twain (Following the Equator)
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A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
-- James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time)
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop
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Amateurs do what's interesting; professionals do what's crucial.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (Sept 2003))
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Trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
-- Bruce Schneier (Wired News (Sep, 07, 2006))
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If [the public] wants to benefit from real medical knowledge, they should also contribute to it.
-- Julian Tudor Hart
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of this meeting.
-- Bryan Donaldson
