On Truth. May 24, 2020 🎵 & quotes ”The only truth is music.” Jack Kerouac On Destination May 24, 2020 📚 & quotes ”One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” Henry Miller … Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch On Language May 24, 2020 quotes “Language makes thought, as much as it is made by thought. Thought inhabits language and language is its body.” Maurice Merleau-Ponty … From On Knowing May 24, 2020 quotes “I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your On Life May 24, 2020 📚 & quotes ”The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” Frank Herbert - Dune Not Yet Attributed Apr 6, 2020 🗒 & quotes Sometimes I find or hear great quotes - but can’t attribute them, so I am collecting them here. “We are not waiting for anything at all anymore … On Transition Apr 4, 2020 people.first & quotes “Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Strategy and Tactics Apr 4, 2020 quotes ”Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu Logical Arguments Apr 1, 2020 quotes ”All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically” Steven Weinberg On Reading Jan 12, 2020 📚 & quotes “Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that On Insults Apr 24, 2019 quotes ”No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer On The English Apr 24, 2019 quotes ”The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.” Margaret Halsey On Empire Apr 24, 2019 quotes ”In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in On The British Apr 24, 2019 quotes ”They (the British) are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent.” Voltaire On Poems Apr 24, 2019 quotes “We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.” John Fowles On Truth Apr 17, 2019 quotes “Far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.” Richard Feynman On Reading Apr 17, 2019 quotes “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami On Certainty Apr 17, 2019 quotes “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” Voltaire On Betting Apr 17, 2019 quotes “If you bet on a horse, that’s gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that’s entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, On Trust Apr 17, 2019 quotes “A man who trusts nobody is apt to be a man nobody trusts.” Harold Macmillan On Idleness Apr 17, 2019 quotes ”The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” Bertrand Russell Truth Apr 17, 2019 quotes “Be careful of what you do ’cause the lie becomes the truth.” Michael Jackson On Zero Apr 17, 2019 quotes “If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.” Robert D. Kaplan On Fear Apr 17, 2019 quotes ”Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Margaret Atwood On Failure Apr 17, 2019 quotes Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett On People Apr 17, 2019 quotes ”We should try and make people more interesting than phones.” Charlie Brooker On Confusion Apr 17, 2019 quotes ”If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” Harry S. Truman TRUMan TRUMp As someone else once said … “History doesn’t repeat - but it does On Morality Apr 17, 2019 quotes ”… your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed … On Predictions Apr 17, 2019 quotes “I never make predictions, especially about the future.” Sam Goldwyn … or Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra or Niels Bohr or Robert On Teaching Apr 17, 2019 quotes “If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to On Teaching Apr 17, 2019 quotes If you give a hungry man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Lao Tsu On Minds Apr 17, 2019 quotes ”Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary” Blaise Pascal On Time Apr 6, 2019 quotes “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; On Thinking Apr 6, 2019 quotes ”Most people would rather die than think; many do.” Bertrand Russell On Pursuit Apr 6, 2019 quotes ”An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” Pliny the Younger On Paradise Apr 6, 2019 quotes “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges On Love Apr 6, 2019 quotes “When two people fall in love and suspect they are made for each other, the thing is to have the courage to break it off, for by continuing they On Government Apr 6, 2019 quotes ”Every nation gets the government it deserves” Joseph de Maistre On Work Apr 6, 2019 quotes “What science has done is to increase the proportion of your life in which you are a cog. You can only justify the cog theory by worship of the On Trump Apr 6, 2019 politics & quotes “Mr. Trump’s candidacy is a message from the voters. He is the empty gin bottle they have chosen to toss through the window.” David Gerlernter On Sleep Apr 6, 2019 quotes ”I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” Ernest Hemingway On Happiness Apr 6, 2019 quotes “The key to happiness is to have low expectations.” Howard Rheingold On Minds Apr 5, 2019 quotes “And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in On Traveling Apr 5, 2019 quotes “Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Baṭūṭah On Praying Apr 5, 2019 quotes ”When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep” The Pope On Writing Apr 5, 2019 quotes “I would go on writing even if I knew I was not going to be published, ever. I couldn’t help it.” John LeCarre On The American Dream Apr 5, 2019 quotes ”It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” George Carlin On Flaws Apr 5, 2019 quotes “I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.” Sarah Dessen On Creativity Apr 5, 2019 quotes “Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse On Writing Apr 3, 2019 quotes ”The reason I eventually became a writer is that writing makes thinking easier, and even as a verbally under developed fourteen-year-old I knew that On History Apr 3, 2019 quotes “A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.” Robert Heinlein On Truth Apr 3, 2019 quotes ”“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”” On Truth Apr 3, 2019 quotes “I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.” Neil deGrasse Tyson On Religion Apr 3, 2019 quotes ”There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” George Bernard Shaw On Wars Apr 3, 2019 quotes ”All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Viet Thanh Nguyen On Management Apr 3, 2019 quotes ”One sticks a finger into the ground to smell what country one is in. I stick my finger into the world — it has no smell. Where am I? What does it On Desire Apr 3, 2019 quotes ”The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, On Beer Apr 3, 2019 quotes “Good people drink good beer.” Hunter S. Thompson On Artifical Intelligence Apr 2, 2019 quotes ”Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” Tom Chatfield On Specialization Apr 1, 2019 quotes ”A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, On Immigration Apr 1, 2019 quotes ”We all came in on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.” Martin Luther King Jr On Hunger Apr 1, 2019 quotes ”The belly is a rascal, it doesn’t remember how well you treated it yesterday, it’ll cry out for more tomorrow.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn On Forgiveness Apr 1, 2019 quotes ”We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Robin Sharma (maybe) On Decisions Apr 1, 2019 quotes ”Generally speaking, in making a decision we have before us a large number of alternatives, none of which is demonstrably more “rational” than the On What Counts Apr 1, 2019 quotes ”What you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count.” R. Buckminster Fuller On Grammar Apr 1, 2019 quotes ”Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.” Richard Chenevix Trench On Truth Mar 28, 2019 quotes ”All truth is comprised in music and mathematics.” Margaret Fuller On Service Mar 26, 2019 quotes ”People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.” Theodore Levitt On Magic Mar 26, 2019 quotes “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C Clarke On Price Mar 26, 2019 quotes ”Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” Warren Buffet On Calm Mar 26, 2019 quotes ”I’m not going to calm down because that’s not my nature“ Karl Lagerfeld On Politics Mar 26, 2019 quotes ”I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” Adlai E. On Matter Mar 26, 2019 quotes ”Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” Johann Wolfgang von Goeth On The Good Life Mar 23, 2019 quotes ”The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Bertrand Russell On Judgement Mar 23, 2019 quotes “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire On Astrology Mar 23, 2019 quotes ”I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” Arthur C Clarke On Perception Mar 23, 2019 quotes ”There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” Aldous Huxley On Humanity Mar 23, 2019 quotes ”All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal On Digital Mar 21, 2019 quotes ”But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, On Answers Mar 20, 2019 quotes ”If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” Thomas Pynchon On Dying Mar 20, 2019 quotes ”Dying is active. Dying is not what happens to you. Dying is what you do.” Stephen Jenkinson On Politics Mar 20, 2019 quotes ”To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”” Hubert H. Humphrey On History Mar 20, 2019 quotes ”You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Steve Jobs On Writing Mar 20, 2019 quotes ”If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.” Benjamin Franklin On Strength Mar 20, 2019 quotes ”That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche On Attitude Mar 20, 2019 quotes ”A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” Tom Stoppard On Google Mar 12, 2019 quotes “Google does not understand customers whose IQs are sub-200.” Robert Cringely On Protocols Feb 27, 2019 quotes ”The protocols that matter are not the ones that help us express commercial intent but rather the ones that preserve our right to personality.” On Lies Feb 25, 2019 quotes ”A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain On Response Feb 25, 2019 quotes ”Networked threats require a networked response.” Anne-Marie Slaughter On Life Feb 18, 2019 quotes “Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” On Education Feb 18, 2019 quotes “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and On Courage Feb 18, 2019 quotes ”Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill On Knowledge Feb 18, 2019 quotes “Knowledge consists in the search for truth… It is not the search for certainty.” Karl Popper On Death Feb 18, 2019 quotes ”There is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address.” Edgar Froese On Republicans Feb 18, 2019 politics & quotes ”In reality, the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism” Avik Roy On Opportunity Feb 18, 2019 quotes ”Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him” Bangambiki Habyarimana On Man Feb 14, 2019 quotes “Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.” Werner Herzog On Creation Feb 14, 2019 quotes ”In order to make apple pie from scratch you must first create the universe.” Carl Sagan On Opportunity Jan 14, 2019 quotes ”Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him” Bangambiki Habyarimana “Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In are starting to look like Ivanka Trump and Women Who Work, just privileged posers and empty rhetoric. Dec 15, 2018 quotes & people.first ” Stowe Boyd On Writing Dec 14, 2018 🖋 & quotes “One can never be alone enough to write. To see better.” Susan Sontag On Dan Rather Dec 14, 2018 🎵 & quotes I like Dan Rather. He’s a fine newsman, an interesting person to talk to, and quite a bit nuttier than most of those media types (I consider that a On Vegeterianism Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”I am a vegetarian for health reasons — the health of the chicken.” Isaac Bashevis Singer On Time Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Don’t let yesterday take up much of today.” Kim Stanley Robinson On Democracy Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both.” Louis Brandeis On Words Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Words divide, pictures unite!” Otto Neurath On Change Nov 19, 2018 quotes “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” C.S. Lewis On Capitalism Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Late capitalism is a pyramid racket on a global scale…getting the suckers to believe it’s all gonna go on forever” Thomas Pynchon On Climate Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” David Attenborough On Wisdom Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.” E. O. Wilson On Ethics Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Any field that obsesses over ‘ethics’ as a topic independent of the work is probably doing something very unethical in that work.” Annoymous via On Conversation Nov 19, 2018 quotes “I still believe in the power of something seemingly so small as two people talking in a room.” Steven Soderbergh On Cooperation Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale On Morals Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”It is a moral imperative to obey just laws, but it’s also a moral imperative to disobey unjust laws.” Martin Luther King Jr On Language Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.” Oscar Wilde This Is Not America Nov 19, 2018 🎵 & quotes A little piece of you The little peace in me Will die For this is not America. David Bowie This quote was used on my 18th article for On Intelligence Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Steven Hawking Steven Hawking ~emquote On What Matters Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” Johann Wolfgang von Goeth On Minorities Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”The protection of minorities is vitally important; and even the most orthodox of us may find himself in a minority some day, so that we all have an On Heroes Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” Bertolt Brecht On Life Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” David Shrigley On Madness Nov 19, 2018 quotes “You’re only given a little spark of madness and if you lose that, you’re nothing.” Robin Williams On Ambition Nov 19, 2018 quotes “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” Timothy Leary On Thinking Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.” Bertrand Russell On Getting It Right Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” John Wooden On Words Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness” Samuel Becket On Needs Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” Mahatma Gandhi 🎵 Who Was Major Tom Nov 19, 2018 🎵 & quotes “When I originally wrote about Major Tom,” Bowie said, “I thought I knew all about the great American dream and where it started and where it should On Education Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats On Misbehaving Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.” Orson Welles On Life Nov 19, 2018 🎥 & quotes ”If I had to live my life again, I’d do everything the same, except that I wouldn’t see The Magus.” Woody Allen On Being Nov 19, 2018 quotes “Be — drop becoming.” Julian Summerhayes On The Presidency Nov 19, 2018 quotes “In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.” Adlai E. Stevenson II On Success Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Success is always rationalized. People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and On Anger Nov 19, 2018 quotes “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” Benjamin Franklin On Genius Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald On Business Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Business is not just business. Business is relationships. Real humans! Real feelings!” Tina Roth Eisenberg (SwissMiss) On Improvisation Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”There are no mistakes, just chances to improvise.” Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock On Time Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell On Eternity Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Well I’m not a scientist. But I know all things begin and end in eternity.” Thomas Jerome Newton, The Man Who Fell To Earth On Knowledge Nov 19, 2018 quotes “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Steven Hawking On Writing Nov 19, 2018 quotes Turn up for work. Never stop when you are stuck. Love what you do. Be honest with yourself. Don’t hold onto poor work. Take no notice of anyone you On Organization Nov 19, 2018 quotes “The organization as a rigidly reductionist mechanical beast is an endangered species. The traditional heroic leader may not be far behind.” On Silence Nov 19, 2018 quotes “Listen to the silence it has much to say.” Rumi On Life Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.”” Bertrand Russell On England Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.” Charles Churchill On Reputation Systems Nov 19, 2018 quotes “Universal reputation systems are evil personified.” Philip Sheldrake To be fair - it is what he said, but what he wrote, is a little more On Privacy Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of privacy.” David Martin Who is David Martin On Life Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we have only one.” Confucius On Philosophy Nov 19, 2018 quotes “The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one On Seeing Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau On Pictures Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Remembering simplified pictures is better than forgetting exact numbers.” Otto Neurath On Bitcoin Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”So is Bitcoin a giant bubble that will end in grief? Yes. But it’s a bubble wrapped in techno-mysticism inside a cocoon of libertarian On Direction Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.” Irwin Corey (accepting the the National Book Award in 1974 for Gravity’s On Genius v Talent Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Genius gives birth, talent delivers” Jack Kerouac On Men Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”I love men — they make such good pets.” Blanche Blackwell On Musicians Nov 19, 2018 🎵 & quotes “All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.” Thelonious Monk On Twitter Nov 19, 2018 quotes “Twitter - a stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous who love to second-guess, to leap to conclusions and be offended.” Stephen Fry On Knowledge Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde On Cricket Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Cricket is a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of Eternity.” Lord On Tourism Nov 19, 2018 quotes “Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.” Evelyn Waugh On Direction Nov 19, 2018 quotes “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll On Appearance Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”We’re Apple. We Don’t Wear Suits. We Don’t Even Own Suits.” Steve Jobs On Teaching Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Whoever leaves the most out is the best teacher.” Otto Neurath On On ‘The Essential’ Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”“One sees rightly only with the heart, the essential is invisible to the eyes.”” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry On Performance Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Nothing proves performance more than 400 flying monkeys.” Phil Schiller On Yourself Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” Sylvia Plath On Pictures Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Whatever can be shown by a picture must not be told in words.” Otto Neurath On Integrity Nov 19, 2018 quotes “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” Buckminster Fuller On Anger Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”When anger rises, think of the consequences.” Confucius On Change Nov 19, 2018 quotes “You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” R. On England Nov 19, 2018 quotes Nothing ever stands still. We must add to our heritage or lose it, we must grow greater or grow less, we must go forward or backward. I believe in On Fools and Fanatics Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”The Problem with the World Is That Fools & Fanatics Are So Certain of Themselves.” Bertrand Russell On Confidence Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Confidence is silent and insecurity is loud” Senator John Kennedy ” On Silicon Valley Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Silicon Valley strives to compress all of digital experience into a single, monotonous feed, mainlining capital into the pockets of On Poetry Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”The heart turns to poetry what the mind can’t understand.” Juansen Dizon On Experience Nov 19, 2018 quotes “I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” R Buckminster Fuller On Minds Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt On Congress Nov 15, 2018 quotes ”Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.” Boris Marshalov Marshalov is On Monsters Nov 14, 2018 quotes “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to On Change Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” On Writing Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”Sometimes, when you’re writing, it feels like you’re fingers are chasing your brain, trying to get all the thoughts out on the page before they run On Questions Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than questions that can’t be questioned.” Richard Feynman On The British Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”I didn’t know he was dead; I thought he was British.” Anonymous On Spirituality Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.” Carl Sagan On Power Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”The most important thing about power is to make sure you don’t have to use it.” Edwin Land On Reading … And Writing Nov 14, 2018 quotes “We read often with as much talent as we write.” Ralph Waldo Emerson On Curiosity Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”Be absurdly curious.” Werner Herzog On Chairs Nov 14, 2018 quotes “Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois” Le Corbusier On Trouble Nov 14, 2018 quotes “So are we heading for trouble? Too soon to tell. But if we are, rest assured that we’ll have the worst possible people on the case.” Paul Krugman On Beauty? Nov 14, 2018 quotes … or Power? “A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience.” Naomi Wolf On Evil Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” Hannah Arendt On Music Nov 12, 2018 🎵 & quotes ”Without music life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche It Didn’t Have To Be That Way Oct 8, 2018 quotes & observations ”Unlike ‘blockchain’ or ‘digital twins’, ethics and privacy are not at all new concepts. They’ve been discussion topics for philosophers and On Maintenance Oct 8, 2018 quotes “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus On Narcissism Nov 16, 2017 quotes “Narcissism: when one grows too old to believe in one’s uniqueness, one falls in love with one’s complexity.” John Fowles On Control Nov 14, 2016 quotes “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell On Powerful Ideas May 15, 2016 quotes ”Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo On Revolution Dec 31, 2015 quotes “It’s not a revolution if nobody loses.” Clay Shirky via Stoweboyd via Stowe Boyd On Next Year Dec 31, 2015 quotes ”more deep less shallow; more writing less busy; more walking less flying; more music less noise; more garden less food; more laughs less sighs; On Platforms Dec 31, 2015 quotes “A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.” Bill On Power and Capital Dec 31, 2015 quotes “Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism On Oppression Dec 31, 2015 quotes ”People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Aldous Huxley On Predictions Nov 14, 2014 quotes ”You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Steve Jobs