Archive for May, 2008

Stephen Hawking on Technology

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

- Stephen Hawking

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Karen Horney on Life

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

- Karen Horney

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Groucho Marx on Humor

Humor is reason gone mad.

- Groucho Marx

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Jean Cocteau on Poetry

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

- Jean Cocteau

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P. J. O’Rourke on Politics

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

- P. J. O’Rourke

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A. A. Milne on Knowledge & Learning

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

- A. A. Milne

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Hendrik Willem Van Loon on Art

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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John Gregory Dunne on Art

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

- John Gregory Dunne

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Charles Barkley on Sports

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ‘Hey, I’m rich’.

- Charles Barkley

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Carl Sagan on Science

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

- Carl Sagan

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