Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous... It fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness... It feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
The Law of Least Astonishment: A program should always respond to the user in the way that astonishes him least.
-- Geoffrey James (The Tao of Programming)
The fight to protect my beloved Okefenokee Swamp continues! If you visit EnvironmentGeorgia.org, you can lend your voice by sending GA's Governor a message.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
-- Albert Einstein
Any error can be the unrecognized bearer of truth.
-- Umberto Eco
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
-- Douglas Engelbart
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter
Short IG reel about my beloved Okefenokee Swamp, and why it must be protected! #Okefenokee #Georgia www.instagram.com/reel/DOcET6h...
The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time it's just being a technician.
-- Clifford Stoll (TED Talk (2006))
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No generalization is wholly true, not even this one.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck to good.
-- Richard Wiseman
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Any claim of revelation is outrageous. It presumes that God exists, that God speaks and all is not lost when human beings translate that speech into ordinary language.
-- Stephen Prothero (WSJ Book Review (Oct 2, 2009))
The complexity of modern medicine exceeds the inherit limitations of an unaided human mind.
-- David Eddy
Where religious commands mirror compassion, great, we didn't need them. Where religious commands subvert compassion they reveal religion's ability to twist even a father's love so much it can make him is daughter's killer.
-- J. T. Eberhard (patheos.com)
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
