There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel
Better to dare Mighty Things and fail, than to live in a gray twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
What we end up measuring is not always the most important thing but the easiest to measure.
-- Lisa Ordóñez (Goals Gone Wild (2009))
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Respect science, respect nature, respect each other.
-- Hal Harvey
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The reason today's electronic computers seem benign is that the true electronic revolution has not happened yet. Our current phase of computerization is still akin to the stage of history when muscle tasks were moving from humans to animals. The tasks being reassigned from individual human minds to electronic circuits still retain all their old human structure and scale.
-- James Bailey (After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence)
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adoured by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken (On Politics)
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It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
-- George Eliot
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
-- Albert Einstein
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Not too many people, in the final analysis, really want their problems solved.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)
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