Wisdom in SpaceThe hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.
-- Paul Graham
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people -- that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
-- James Thurber
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language... Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
-- Benjamin Whorf
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
-- Goethe
People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry S. Truman
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-- Samuel Johnson (1775)
If a system has to be explained to people, that's a clue that its design is driven by what you "know" rather than by what people immediately recognize as useful.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (May 2005))
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly -- or it vanishes.
-- Peter Drucker
