The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Here stands the Great Machine! Its eyes are gold and silver, and its name is Urizen. Ever does it turn, marching forward into eternity, turning the blood of men into history. Caught in its terrible gears, the world wails. Turning, turning, ever turning: The end is marked by a wheel
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
-Burt Bacharach
All the technologies you take for granted were created by living, breathing, thinking, dreaming human beings just like you.
All statements are true in some sense , false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
- Donella Meadows
Seriously, in another second or two, you're going to really hate yourself for having read the entirety of this self-indulgent abortion of a sentence.
The world is full of adults scrambling around trying to learn how to play again.
They forgot.
Complicated machinery has had to be matched by complicated social arrangements, designed to work as smoothly and efficiently as the new instruments of production.
Murphey's law always brings good luck, you mortals just don't see it that way.
(The Goddess Murphey)
Solar powered drones, if they aren't already, will soon be monitoring all of the world and crushing dissent with precision guided missiles. On the bright side though they are solar powered.
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