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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the read more
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a read more
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because read more
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things read more
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
