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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus read more
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the read more
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things read more
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same read more
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
