“The internet is the first thing humans have built that humans don’t understand.”
— Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
Well, some humans. The ones at Google understand it only too well.
Category Archives: Quotes
Quote of the Day
“The worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”.
Bertrand Russell
I think he also wrote somewhere that the slogan “My country, right or wrong” is as absurd as “My mother, drunk or sober”.
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“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned”
Richard Feynman
Quote of the day
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
Quote of the day
“Calling a developer a coder is like a tourist calling San Francisco Frisco.
It’s one sure way to tell they’re a tourist.”
Knowingness and knowledge
“There is a difference between knowingness and knowledge, but what is it? Knowingness comes after knowledge; it is only the echo of its source, and it is proud to be the echo. One of the liberties of our connected age is that we can be almost infinitely knowing, consoling our lack of true knowledge with an easy cynicism of acquisition. It is cheaply glorious to be able to discover almost any fact about the world on the machine I am using to write this review: I experience that liberty as the reward it is, and also as a punishment; as both a gift of the digital world and a judgement on my scant acquaintance with the actual world.”
James Wood, reviewing Zia Haider Rahman’s dazzling first novel, In the Light of What We Know
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“No opinion should be held with fervour. No one holds with fervour that 7 × 8 = 56 because it can be shown to be the case. Fervour is only necessary in commending an opinion which is doubtful or demonstrably false.”
Voltaire
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“In politics, promises are binding only on those to whom they are made.”
Alan Clark, in his final diary.
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“Many of history’s great inventions are really great appropriations — middling ideas if used as intended, brilliant when reoriented or co-opted.”
Kathryn Schultz, The New Yorker, April 7, 2014.