Archive for December, 2008

Lewis Thomas on Science

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

- Lewis Thomas

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John Perry Barlow on Technology

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

- John Perry Barlow

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Ayn Rand on Success

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

- Ayn Rand

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C. S. Lewis on God & Religion

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

- C. S. Lewis

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Abraham Crowley on Nature

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that… I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

- Abraham Crowley

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Thomas Hobbes on Politics

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

- Thomas Hobbes

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Aristotle on Nature

Nature does nothing uselessly.

- Aristotle

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John Dewey on Jobs & Working

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

- John Dewey

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Theodore Roosevelt on Jobs & Working

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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William Gibson on Technology

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

- William Gibson

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