“In fact, making up a spiteful lie has become respectable. Today's "jesters" are outright public nuisances.”

— Lindsey Davis , book Last Act in Palmyra

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English novelist 1949

Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 208 (2003)

“Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order.”

Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 14 (Cit.after LockerWiener Aktionismus.Der zertrümmerte Spiegel.Wien1960-1971,op.cit., p. 299.)

“Vot", asked George I courteously, "is the difference between a public nuisance and a public convenience?”

S. J. Simon (1904–1948) British bridge player and writer, comic fiction writer

No Nightingales

“The fact that President Obama gave up his public holiday (today is the President’s Day) and held the US-Asean Leaders Summit has shown Washington’s recognition towards the importance of Asean”

Najib Razak (1953) Malaysian politician

Najib hopes that presidents in the future will be like Obama, quoted on Free Malaysia Today (February 16, 2016), "Najib hopes future US presidents will be like Obama" http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2016/02/16/najib-hopes-future-us-presidents-will-be-like-obama/

“Pure publication quantity today has become a meaningless metric. One can publish almost anything.”

Robert J. Marks II (1950) American electrical engineering researcher and intelligent design advocate

All engineering fields are either solutions looking for problems or problems looking for solutions.
The secret of doing many things at the same time is to do them all poorly.
Forecasting the future of technology is risky. Predictions tend to be linear whereas technical advances come in quantum jumps from paradigm shifts. After the second World War, forecasters in electronics [who did not foresee the transistor] would have linearly [and incorrectly] foretasted breakthroughs in better vacuum tube reliability from, for example, improved filament chemistry.
"Neural Networks and Beyond-An Interview with Robert J. Marks," IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1996 [DOI 10.1109/MCD.1996.537355 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=537355,, From an interview with Professor Bing Sheu, (University of Southern California), July 20, 2007, 2010-05-06]

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is a remarkable fact in the history of science, that the more extended human knowledge has become, the more limited human power, in that respect, has constantly appeared.”

Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874) Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist

Introductory
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: It is a remarkable fact in the history of science, that the more extended human knowledge has become, the more limited human power, in that respect, has constantly appeared. This globe, of which man imagines the haughty possessor, becomes, in the eyes of astronomer, merely a grain of dust floating in immensity of space: an earthquake, a tempest, an inundation, may destroy in an instant an entire people, or ruin the labours of twenty ages.... But if each step in the career of science thus gradually diminishes his importance, his pride has a compensation in the greater idea of his intellectual power, by which he has been enabled to perceive those laws which seem to be, by their nature, placed for ever beyond his grasp.

“For in spite of ourselves we respect those whom we see respected.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“And the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise,
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

" The Grandmother http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson/14415", st. 8 (1864)

“Knowledge in and of itself is devoid of good and evil. Knowledge, however, does not necessarily make human beings wiser. In fact, knowledge without wisdom can be outright dangerous.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

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