Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
Canto VI, st. 17.
Variant: Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
Source: Marmion (1808)
“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Prosperity … is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”
Campaign speech, 1912, PWW 25:99
1910s
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 23.
Context: To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The natural laziness of the mind tempts one to eschew authors who demand a continuous effort of intelligence. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
People tell me that they must read the papers so as to know what is going on. In the first place, they could hardly find a worse guide. Most of what is printed turns out to be false, sooner or later. Even when there is no deliberate deception, the account must, from the nature of the case, be presented without adequate reflection and must seem to possess an importance which time shows to be absurdly exaggerated; or vice versa. No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective.
“Our next presenter is the first woman to ever breast-feed an Apple – Gwyneth Paltrow.”
At the Academy Awards as host
Miscellaneous
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 730
Sunni Hadith
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
“Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)”
“Sometimes when you feed on another’s word you must eat it like a banana – you peel it first.”
Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978
developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee (podcast/audio plus transcript) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206txt.html
