Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein

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Innovation comes when there is a tender balance between chaos and bureaucracy, and not too much of either.
-- Brewster Kahle

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A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.
-- Stephen C. Johnson

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The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to escape.
-- James Joyce

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Capitalism and democracy do not necessarily go hand in hand. ... Perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business.
-- George Soros

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We're all looking for answers that are proportional to the event. [Conspiracy theorists] help connect the dots for people with what feels like a coherent answer to a problem that makes them feel powerless.
-- Michael Kirk

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
-- George Jean Nathan

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

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