Dubowski Chart Quotes & Sayings

So we read books just because they make us happy or because they're fun, because they will make us sound smart, because they'll get us into college or a good job ahead of the others? Or should we use them as a practical guide to recognizing dragons? No, they show us that we have a purpose; that we can be useful in the world, and that is our pleasure. Education gives us minds more awake, and a life that is more than just passing time. — Anne E. White

The Internet was a wonderful invention. It was a computer network which people used to remind other people that they were awful pieces of shit. — Jarett Kobek

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation. — Samuel Johnson

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all. — Tony Judt

The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. — Anatole France

I made it into Wikipedia," sang Erszebet. "I'll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia. — Neal Stephenson

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty ... — Edward Gorey

Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call. — Larry Wall

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in. — Douglas Pagels