Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. ~Mark Twain
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.” ~Woody Guthrie
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities” ~Voltaire
Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure,” avec Campbell’s Law: The more a metric is used, the more likely it is to “corrupt the process it is intended to monitor.”
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” ~GeorgeOrwell
“Create what you would like to use and/or use what you would like to have created” ~RzR
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge” ~Daniel Boorstin
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed : everything else is public relations.” ~George Orwell
“Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” ~George Orwell
People who deny the existence of robots may be robots themselves
“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” -Bill Cosby
“They who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” – http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Franklin.Quote.8ABC
“The environment is so full of television, party political broadcasts and advertising campaigns that you hardly need to do anything.” (JG Ballard)
“War is a rich man's terrorism; Terrorism is a poor man's war.” – http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains” ~~ Rosa Luxemburg