All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from non-violence you turn non-violence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
-- Jean Goss
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sail.
-- Anonymous
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
-- George Orwell
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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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Representation is the essence of programming.
-- Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man-Month)
One learns not by a photographic copying of things shown, but by an internal drama imitative of the action witnessed. When the instructor gropes for a word, corrects himself, interjects a comment or an analogy not directly called for, he gives a spectacle of man thinking which no slick film or televised show will provide.
-- Jacques Barzun
If you can listen to everything, you may end up hearing nothing.
-- Bernard Holland
I define legacy system as any system that's been up long enough to work.
-- Clement McDonald
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It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth -- this indifference to how things really are -- that I regard as the essence of bullshit. ... The bullshitter ... does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
-- Harry G. Frankfurt (On Bullshit (2005))
If one has talent it pushes for utterance and torments one; it will out....There is nothing in this thing of learning out of books. Here, here and here [the ear, the head, the heart] is your school. If everything is right there, then take your pen and down with it; afterwards ask the opinion of a man who knows his business.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-- Immanuel Kant
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan Perlis
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
-- Bertrand Russell
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Given unfettered economical access to the means for distributing information, varied private and public patterns of mediating learning can continue to evolve with changing preferences under whatever guidance advancing knowledge of learning can provide. Otherwise, talk of technology helping learning in a democratic society will be academic in the most pejorative sense of the word.
-- Anthony Oettinger and Nikki Zapol (Will Information Technologies Help Learning? (1972))
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Technology seems to always start out promising specialization and personalization. In the end, it delivers more homogenization instead.
-- Lee Gomes
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 adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
-- Pierre Bayle
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
-- Erich Fromm
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It is almost always possible to present an intellectually honest and engaging account of any field, using a minimum of technical apparatus. This is seldom done, however, since most priesthoods are inclined to hide behind a wall of mystery and to commune only with their fellow priests.
-- John Allen Paulos
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