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- When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
- Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
- The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
- William Gibson (1948 - )
- An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
- Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
- Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
- Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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