Stephen Wolfram (1959) British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physicist, writer and businessman
"Computing a Theory of Everything" (2010)
“… even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.
- Mr. Penderwick”
Source: The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Context: Humanity is moving ever deeper into a crisis which has no precedent. It is a crisis brought about by evolution being intent on completely integrating differently colored, differently cultured, and intercommunicating humanity, and by evolution being intent on making integrated humanity able to live sustainedly at a higher standard of living for all than has ever been experienced by any. Probably ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it; we do. It can only be accomplished, however, through a Design Science Revolution.
Those in supreme power, politically and economically, aren’t yet convinced that our Planet Earth has anywhere nearly enough life support for all humanity.
They assume it has to be either you or me, that there is not enough for both. Those with financial advantage reason that selfishness is necessary and fortify themselves even further.
Ben Horowitz (1966) American businessman
Fortune: "Ben Horowitz: There's a fine line between fear and courage" http://fortune.com/2011/08/05/ben-horowitz-theres-a-fine-line-between-fear-and-courage/ (5 August 2011)
Jonathan Ive (1967) English designer and VP of Design at Apple
Ive (2007) cited in: Lev Grossman " The Apple of Your Ear http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1576854-5,00.html", Time Magazine, Friday, Jan. 12, 2007: About the iPhone upon its introduction
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer
If you start an argument with yourself, that makes two people at least, and when you have two people, one of them starts appeasing the other.
"Epistle from Mother Carey's Chicken"
Peter quotes 'Conscience doth make cowards of us all' from the 'To be, or not to be' speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3, scene 1.
Birds of America (1971)
“It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.”
Anita Brookner A Start in Life
A Start in Life (1981)
“If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.”
Prima enim sequentem honestum est in secundis tertiisque consistere. ([http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/orator.shtml#3 3])
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Variant translation: If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Chapter I, section 4
Orator Ad M. Brutum (46 BC)
