
“We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
Source: debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009
“We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
Source: debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009
“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
1962, Rice University speech
“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”
“The American story is about the slow, yet steady widening of opportunity.”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLR4sCgvnc
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLR4sCgvnc
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
“The first thing a man will do for his ideal is lie”
Source: History of Economic Analysis, p. 43
“At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.”
“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.”
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.”
Variant: Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
“Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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
“It is very easy to love alone.”