“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci
Quotations
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“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” — Popular Mechanics, 1949
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“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.” — Thomas Edison
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“The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.” — Engineer Vannevar Bush, 1945
Baser Instincts
Recruiting poster, 1917.
George Bernard Shaw said, “Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.”
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“Genius is eternal patience.” — Michelangelo Buonarroti
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“No human thing is of serious importance.” — Plato
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“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” — Raymond Chandler
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“There’s just some people you don’t hit with a pie and that’s all there is to it.” — Buster Keaton
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“He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don’t envy dogs the lives they have to live.” — Charles M. Schulz, on Snoopy