“How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldTryingMeanSaidYoungUsedGuyGivenBoysKnow HowModernAdviceLet MeUsed To BeSpotsModern World Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.” KnowsStatesKnow HowModernFashionContinuity Author:Le Corbusier
“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.” KnowsSeemsAbleArtistFoundKnow HowModernMurdererConqueror Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).” IfsKnowsNeedsBelieveMayLightI BelieveKnow HowGenerationsModernFasterSuspectsSingularity Author:Charles Stross
“Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.” KnowsDoeStatesAbleLyingBornKnow HowDoubtModernExposedPalestinianHamas Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.” KnowsMenNeedsLooksKnow HowModernCircumstancesLeisureLooking GoodModern ManLeisure Time Book:Meaning Success Source: Meaning Success
“I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.” KnowsReadingDifficultKnow HowTroubleModernContemporaryHebrew Author:Noam Chomsky
“This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!” KnowsMindFirstsImportantPhilosophyFactsRealityMistakeKnow HowModernNew YorkDenyDrawingBridgesDistinctionMapsChicagoConstructsDeclaringRoad MapsModern Philosophy Author:Josh McDowell
“The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.” KnowsMenAgeFormKnow HowModernMaterialsMastersMassCommandDataDistinctionSuperiorityCriteriaModern Age Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.” KnowsBelieveReasonFactsUseProblemKnow HowModernDisciplineTestsPhysicsNo ReasonFlawsQuantumMagnificentSurvivedMechanicConfusingQuantum MechanicsModern Physics Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“My wife and I have been together for 11 years, and seven of those married. We got married on 07/07/07. We support each other 150 percent. We have fun. We are a modern-day Sonny & Cher. I don't sing. My wife sings. We're so different, but so alike. We got that ying and yang thing going on. You see it, but you don't know how it works.” KnowsYearsHas BeensDifferentTogetherFunSupportKnow HowWifeModernMarriedPercentSevenMy WifeHaving FunModern DayYangYing And Yang Author:J. B. Smoove