The petty soul favors the grand gesture.
Mar 072014
The petty soul favors the grand gesture.
Countries are artificial: cities are natural.
Nobody knows what he’s missing.
Today’s reductio, tomorrow’s reality.
Every new power allies itself with the dispossessed, for the possessed are its competition.
The great divide will be crossed not when a computer can pass a Turing test, but when it can give one.
Reading maketh a full man, writing an exact man, and conference a man ready to quit his job.
The history of science has been a progressive obliteration of distinctions between humans and other natural phenomena.
We are all such good people, and do such horrid things.
Credulity is fixed: doubting something obvious just clears space for believing something foolish.