
“It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.”
Nadia Chernyshevski
Green Mars (1993)
"Statement in The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program oral history" (20 April 1995) http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/sj1.html
1990s
“It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.”
Nadia Chernyshevski
Green Mars (1993)
'Disrupted' by Dan Lyons is the best book about Silicon Valley today. We talk to the author. http://latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-disrupted-lyons-20160429-snap-htmlstory.html in The Los Angeles Times (29 April 2016)
"Truisms rot brains; absolute truisms rot brains absolutely" (9 August 2010) http://dreamcafe.com/words/2010/08/09/truisms-rot-brains-absolute-truisms-rot-brains-absolutely/
The Dream Café
“What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.”
Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 6 : Where the Tree Falls
Context: In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
First Inaugural Address http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/monroe1.asp (4 March 1817)