Today Quotes
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In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.Andre Gide
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.Robertson Davies
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.Edward Gibbon
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.Martin Luther King Jr.
