
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Future Shock (1970), ch. 18
Source: Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century
“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
Purification
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing.
His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
In Defense of Dissents, 37 Hastings L. J. 427, 428 (1985-1986).
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
"Thinking for Oneself" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter8.html
Essays
" Programming http://naggum.no/erik/programming.html", cited in the preface of Physically Based Rendering (2004) by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys.