The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein
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The relentless flood of information we receive does not necessarily equal an understanding of our situation... It doesn't matter if you hear constantly, night after night, about poor children or abused elders. It matters that you hear about them in some way both deep enough and complicated enough that you'll go out and do something useful.
-- Bill McKibben
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-- Marie Skłodowska Curie
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Art is the lie that helps us see the truth.
-- Pablo Picasso
Pay no attention to appearing. Being is alone important.
-- Andre Gide
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush
A radiant node or cluster... from which, and through which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing.
-- Ezra Pound
Place our dispute on a continuum, it becomes a matter of degree. Let's talk. Frame our dispute as a dichotomy, it becomes a matter of identity. Let's go to war.
-- Philip E. Tetlock
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We enjoy all the achievements of modern civilization ... yet we do not know exactly what to do with ourselves.
-- Vaclav Havel
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Modern communication isn't about truth. It's about a resonant narrative. The myth of PR is that you will educate and inform people. No! The public wants to be told, in a story, who to like and who to hate.
-- Eric Dezenhall
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.
-- Dale Carnegie
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Modern economists are used to measuring the "standard of living" by the amount of annual consumption, assuming all the time that a man who consumes more is "better off" than a man who consumes less.... Since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption... The less toil there is, the more time and strength is left for artistic creativity. Modern economics, on the other hand, considers consumption to be the sole end and purpose of all economic activity.
-- E. F. Schumacher (Small Is Beautiful)
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The ideas that liberate one generation become the shackles of the next.
-- Isaiah Berlin
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To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?
-- Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair Article on His Cancer Diagnosis)
If the times don't demand the best from you, invent other times.
-- Anonymous
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By producing human beings the universe has woken up and turned to contemplate itself.
-- Richard Rathe
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
-- Eric Ambler
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