Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969