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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one read more
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. read more
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity read more
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color read more
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
