“Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.” Quote by Leonard J. V. Compagno
“It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.” IfsGivingBelieveLittlesEnoughAbleTogetherGirlSexLosesStudyTeamFootballSmartSticksDirtyDamnLiquorBeing SmartPhonyFootball TeamCliqueCadillacsHoldenHolden Caulfield Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.” YearsWellsTodayThreeLanguageComputerThree YearsMiceThree Year Olds Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.” CountryTodayInterestStandardsCapitalismMajorityDesirableExploitsImposingDeprivationDeveloped Country Author:John Berger
“Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.” ThinkingWorldHumansStarsWaterBornNaturalExistenceWonderSunSkyOrdinaryIntelligentInstrumentsLongingPrisonFishesMythPoolReach OutTrappedSpeculationRestlessCognitiveIngeniousNatural ScienceAlways Wrong Author:E. O. Wilson
“Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.” Knowing Author:Ramana Maharshi
“The key to success is often the ability to adapt” AbilityKeysKey To SuccessAbility To Adapt Author:Anthony Brandt
“Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that's one heckuva full day.” ThinkingLaughingCryEach Day Author:Jim Valvano
“To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.” MindNervesPositive Thoughts Author:Byron Nelson
“No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.” I CanEndsEnoughPowerToo MuchCarWheelsRacingSpinningGearsNot Good EnoughTop GearToo Much PowerMotorsports Author:Mark Donohue