I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.
Brian EnoScience never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard ShawThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesOur problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.
Margaret AtwoodI used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.
Joyce MeyerI believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas JeffersonI’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry PratchettThe story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.
George LucasSuspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph AddisonIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeIt is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen HawkingI have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
PlatoMen are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAnger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin FranklinMan seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.
Jurgen KloppMystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Neil ArmstrongNo problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
VoltaireI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen HawkingWe always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert CamusThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William JamesMen are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Alexander HamiltonA wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles DickensMan is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand RussellWhen you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Stephen CoveyMost damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
Alice WalkerIt is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo MachiavelliSomehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.
Maya AngelouAs long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.
Robert KiyosakiWe should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma GandhiIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo GalileiI’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.
Brian EnoGovernments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald ReaganMan’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas CarlyleWhat makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
Jane GoodallThe end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas CarlyleTo do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon BonaparteAll this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob DylanMankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas JeffersonHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo MachiavelliHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Alexander PopeIs it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William ShakespeareThe major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas AdamsI do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S. TrumanMan is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George OrwellMan is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
AristotleIf there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand RussellWe’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Billy GrahamWhat then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich NietzscheMost people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry FordWhen I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham LincolnThe sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander HamiltonHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard ShawThe fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
Abraham MaslowWe’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
Charles BukowskiIt’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.
Taylor SwiftIt’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis PresleyIt is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas AdamsI tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
Elon Musk