Cognition, Media, Degradation, Interactions

COGNITION
Marvin Lee Minsky
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.

MEDIA
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Movies in America have not developed advertising intervals simply because the movie itself is the greatest of all forms of advertisement for consumer goods.

DEGRADATION
Sigmund Freud
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

INTERACTIONS
Henry A. Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Zen, Education, Change, Conversation

ZEN
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

EDUCATION
Peter McWilliams
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

CHANGE
William Edwards Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

CONVERSATION
Ben Jonson
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

Writing, Democracy, Calling, Children

WRITING
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

DEMOCRACY
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody’s equal.

CALLING
Taro Gold
Strive to achieve whatever you think you cannot, for it is on the path toward your impossible dream that you will find what you truly seek.

CHILDREN
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Knowledge, War, Cost of Success, Marriage

KNOWLEDGE

Benjamin Franklin
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

WAR

Fridtjof Hansen
War will cease when men refuse to fight.

COST OF SUCCESS

Jean Rostand
Merit envies success, and success takes itself for merit.

MARRIAGE

Anne Fogarty
If you adore her, you must adorn her. There lies the secret of a happy marriage.