Quatations and jokes
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan.
INTELLIGENCE.
- Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt.
To the good listener half a word is enough.
Spanish proverb.
I not only use the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson.
KNOWLEDGE.
We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
Rutherford D.Rogers.
- You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake.
- Knowledge is of two kinds; we know the subject ourselves, or we know
where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson.
- As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer.
The learned is happy, nature to explore,
The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope.
The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.
Martin H.Fisher.
The ffolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell.
WORDS AND LANGUAGE.
- If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Oliver Goldsmith.
- Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. Ecclesiasticus.
Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Lord Byron.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Nathanael West.
Soft words are hard arguments.
Thomas Fuller.
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
Ned Rorem.
- The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan.
The thoughtless are rarely wordless.
Howard W.Newton.
Words are the small change of thought.
Jules REnard.
Words should be weighted, not counted.
Yuddish proverb.
Who does not know another language, does not know his own.
Goethe.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne.
- When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. Goethe.
Everyone hears only what he understands.
Goethe.
JOKES
*- The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed your problems, and they never come out again.
Al Goodman.
THE FUTURE.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke.
- One must care about a world one will never see.
Bernard Russell.
- My interest is in the future, no prediction is ventured.
Abraham Lincoln.
- The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder.
- Light tomorrow with today!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein.
- It takes time to save time.
Joe Taylor.
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