I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
Leo Burnett
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Someone once said about partisan analysts that they use economic data the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support rather than illumination. Or as Disraeli put it, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Paul Krugman
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
A. Whitehead
I will be brief. Nor nearly as brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the World’s shortest speech.
He said: “I will be so brief I have already finished,” and he sad down.
E. O. Wilson
Das Nichtverstehen kommt meistens nicht vom Mangel an Verstande, sondern am Mangel von Sinn.
Friedrich Schlegel
The history of mathematics is largely absent from the “culture” of educated public, historians and mathematicians included… Like the rainbow, mathematics may be admired, but – especially among intellectuals – it must be kept at a distance, away from real life and polite conversation.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Science is build up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincare
A science is any discipline in which a fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckmann
This is the remarkable paradox of mathematics: no matter how determinedly its practitioners ignore the world, they consistently produce the best tools for understanding it.
John Tierney
A theory has only the alternatives of being wrong or right.
A model has a third possibility: it may be right but irrelevant.
Manfred Eigen
The following statement is false.
The preceding statement is true.
This system is now revealed as a Strange Loop. If it is true, it is
false, and if it is false, it is true. This is not trivial. There are
hundreds of such strange loops recognized in logic and mathematics, and it
requires sophisticated knowledge to detect them when they are not as
obvious as this pair. Paul Watzlavik has argued (in Pragmatics of Human
Communication and How Real is Real?) that many types of mental illness
take the form of internalizing such a Strange Loop and trying to live out
its consequences. Alan Watts has proposed, even more grimly, in his
Psychotherapy East & West, that whole societies can become trapped in
such Strange Loops.
RAW
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
Gary Snyder
Abstract: The pace of scientific work continues to accelerate, but the question is whether the pace of discovery will continue to accelerate. If we were driving in the wrong direction – in the direction where no new ideas can be accepted – then even if scientific work goes on, the progress would be stifled. This is not to suggest that we are in quite such a disastrous position, but on the other hand, all is not well.
You have not snared her,
Scarecrow Death:
She’s in my pulse,
My heart, my breath.
Eye sees only
Local hardware;
Brain conceives
Nonlocal software;
Brain knows more
Than eye can see:
Brain can scan
Eternity.
Imagination – just like logic – sucks.
Realness is what we’re seeking.
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