philosophy

"he Special Counsel regulations effectively gave me the role of. As a result, we structured our investigation around evidence for possible use in prosecution of federal crimes. We did not reach... conc…"

"In 1968 Ian Wilson made his final sculpture. Since then, he has explored the idea of oral communication as an art form... Wilson’s work is very hard to track down, even in terms of documentation. He h…"

"Alex is cool because a lot of people can relate to her. She's not the most popular girl in school, but she's also not a geek. I know what it's like to think you don't always fit in, and I think kids c…"

"A model is a qualitative or quantitative representation of a process or endeavor that shows the effects of those factors which are significant for the purposes being considered. A model may be pictori…"

"Arrh! Stars and Mud, ever conjugate, a Paradox to consider, — one…for the Astronomer-Royal, perhaps?" His current scheme being, to assail Maskelyne's Sanity, by now and then posing to him Questions th…"

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

"That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'."

"The human spirit, driven by an invincible force, will never cease to ask: What is beyond? Does he want to stop either in time or in space? Since the point at which he has reigned is only a finite magn…"

"We Bokonists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon "If you find your life tang…"

"Symbioses are central in the evolution of complexity; have evolved many times and are critical to the lifestyles of many animals and plants and also to whole ecosystems, in which symbiotic organisms a…"

"More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity."

"We have only one real shot at "liberation," and that is to emancipate ourselves from within. It is the thesis of this book that personal, psychological dependency—the deep wish to be taken care of by …"

"What I enjoy most about being an entrepreneur is making a difference. By building a business we create jobs, pay taxes, and build families and communities."

"In these matters, as often in our culture, it is far, far better to be wrong in a respectable way than to be right for the wrong reasons."

"Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranc…"

"Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive."

"In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority."

"I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them however, - I think it applies…"

"I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it."

"A common argument from the mouths of capitalist spokespeople, in the ideological struggle against socialism, is that socialism, or the period of building socialism into which we have entered, is chara…"