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virus: Fw: [extropy-chat] Words of wisdom and humor
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From: "Max More" <max@maxmore.com>
To: "Extropy Chat" <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:04 AM
Subject: [extropy-chat] Words of wisdom and humor
> Rather than hoarding all the quotes I've gathered, I thought I'd share some
> of them here. A mix of wisdom, humor, and both at once:
>
>
> "The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here."
> - Sir Arthur C. Clarke
>
> Sexual abstinence is harmless when practiced in moderation.
>
> "The future is usually like the past right up to the moment when it isn't."
> George F. Will, Newsweek, 10.27.03
>
> "I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of
> people."
> Isaac Newton, after losing his savings in the South Sea Bubble of 1720.
>
> "Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world
> order is OK does not get what evolution is all about."
> Leroy Hood
>
> Bill McKibben "It is clear that these revolutionary technologies are being
> driven by people with immortality, or something very near it, on their minds."
>
> "The only one who likes change is a wet baby."
> Unknown
>
> "There's a seeker born every minute."
> Robert Anton Wilson
>
> "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk"
> Thomas Edison
>
> "No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human
> beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?"
> Dr. James Watson, Nobel Laureate, Co-Discoverer with Francis Crick of the
> Structure of DNA, and Founding Director of the NIH Human Genome Project.
>
> "It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who
> believes nothing at face value."
> Robert McKee, Harvard Business Review, June 2003, in "Storytelling That
> Moves People".
>
> "Humankind does not live by bread alone but also by catchphrases."
> From "Real Work" by Abraham Zaleznik, HBR Nov/Dec 1997
>
> "I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to
> be flexible at all times."
> Everett Dirksen, leader of Senate Republicans 1959-1969
>
> "I don't want any 'yes men' in this organization. I want people to speak
> their minds, even if it does cost them their jobs."
> Sam Goldwyn
>
> "Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit
> center is a customer whose check has not bounced."
> Peter F. Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, p.122,
> "Information Challenges".
>
> "If man were meant to be nude, he would have been born that way." - Oscar
> Wilde.
>
> "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
> - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
>
> "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
> - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
>
> "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
> - Voltaire (1694-1778)
>
> "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
> - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
>
> "A witty saying proves nothing."
> - Voltaire (1694-1778)
>
> "If you are going through hell, keep going."
> - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
>
> "I am not young enough to know everything."
> - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
>
> "The covers of this book are too far apart."
> - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
>
> "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."
> - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
>
> "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
> - Voltaire (1694-1778)
>
> "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
> - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that
> he renounce Satan.
>
> "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
> - Lucille S. Harper
>
> "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
> - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
>
> "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
> - Irvin S. Cobb
>
> "If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "
> - Will Rogers (1879-1935)
>
> "His ignorance is encyclopedic"
> - Abba Eban (1915-)
>
> "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
> - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
>
>
> Onward!
>
> Max
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________________
> Max More, Ph.D.
> max@maxmore.com or more@extropy.org
> http://www.maxmore.com
> Strategic Philosopher
> Chairman, Extropy Institute. http://www.extropy.org <more@extropy.org>
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