Vitoslavlitsy Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana

I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name. — Luke Rhinehart

Alfred North Whitehead summed it up best when he remarked that the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of invention itself. We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers - that is to say, as markets. — Neil Postman

To find a man's true character, play golf with him. — P.G. Wodehouse

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story. — Mikhail Bulgakov