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Quotes

"My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer."

Nicholas Negroponte (Wired, 1/96, p. 204)

 

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic."

A.C. Clarke

 

"Here in this island we arrived, and here
Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
Than other princess' can, that have more time
For vainer hours - and tutors not so careful."

Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 1, scene 2

 

"You know you have reached perfection in design, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to be taken away."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

"Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales."

Bertrand Russell

 

"Ground-based radio transmitters...provide the only indication of intelligent, technological life on Earth."

Carl Sagan et al., 1993, "A search for life on Earth from
the Galileo spacecraft," Nature, vol. 365, 21 October, p. 720.

 

"There are three kinds of people in this world:
Those who make things happen,
Those who watch things happen,
And those who wonder, 'What happened?'"

Casey Stengel

 

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

Bertrand Russell

 

"You should wear with pride the scars on your skin.
They're a map of the adventures and the places you've been."

Poi Dog Pondering

 

"If you are careful, if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I feel, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking therefore can keep a person who tries hard sane."

The World According to Garp
John Irving