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• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff [head of RCA] made this stateme
  We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them....
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
• MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
  Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with....
• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all eve
  the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature....
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• Meanwhile, the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret.
  It is false to itself; or, rather, it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself....
• IBM /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually
  Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Moveme...
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- Thomas Jefferso...