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 | "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men,
but that men will begin to think like computers." | |
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Found in the topic Computer.
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| "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not
indicate something about your size?" | |
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Found in the topic Small.
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| "Ninety per cent of the world"s woe comes from people not knowing
themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues.
Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to
ourselves?so how can we know anyone else?" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "All significant achievement comes from daring, from experiment, from
the willingness to risk failure." | |
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Found in the topic Achievement.
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| "An idealist believes the short run doesn"t count. A cynic believes
the long run doesn"t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left
undone in the short run determines the long run." | |
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Found in the topic Cynic.
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| "The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one"s mind a
pleasant place in which to spend one"s leisure." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to
be immortal without getting older." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike
someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us." | |
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Found in the topic Judgment.
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| "The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get
sideswiped by partisans going in both directions." | |
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Found in the topic Politeness.
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| "Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied
by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a
concussion in the head than a hole in the wall." | |
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Found in the topic Persecution.
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| "The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine
achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers
and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their
potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he
finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more
than we know what to do with." | |
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Found in the topic Lazy.
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| "The time to relax is when you don?t have time for it." | |
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Found in the topic Leisure.
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| "You may be certain that when a man begins to call himself a
"realist," he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed
of." | |
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Found in the topic Reality.
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| "When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts
don"t seem like thoughts at all ? just feelings." | |
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Found in the topic Feelings.
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| "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret
for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." | |
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Found in the topic Regret.
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| "We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood
until we move from the passive voice to the active voice ? that is, until
we stop saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."" | |
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Found in the topic Passivity.
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| "When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to
ask, "Compared to what?"" | |
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Found in the topic Comparison.
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| "Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary
evil," it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less
evil." | |
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Found in the topic Conscience.
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| "Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just
discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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