Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011
Edward O. Wilson photo

“We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”

Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist

Source: debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009

Lawrence Ferlinghetti photo
John F. Kennedy photo
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Joe Biden photo

“The American story is about the slow, yet steady widening of opportunity.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLR4sCgvnc

Joe Biden photo

“I pledge to be a president who doesn't sees the blue states or the red states only sees the United States.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLR4sCgvnc

Will Rogers photo
Daniel Kahneman photo
Joseph Alois Schumpeter photo

“The first thing a man will do for his ideal is lie”

Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950) Austrian economist

Source: History of Economic Analysis, p. 43

Seth Godin photo

“At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Seth Godin photo
George Burns photo

“Children often ask for things they do not really want.”

Raised by Wolves, season 1, episode 4. Character Mother.

“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Variant: Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Alan Kay photo

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

Alan Kay (1940) computer scientist

Alan Kay (1971) at a 1971 meeting of PARC http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/27/invent-the-future/
Similar remarks are attributed to Peter Drucker and Dandridge M. Cole.
Cf. Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future (1963): "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."
Nigel Calder reviewed Gabor's book and wrote, "we cannot predict the future, but we can invent it..."
1970s

Gertrude Stein photo

“It is very easy to love alone.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays