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Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few.
-- Ivan Illich

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IvanIllich #Cars #Society #Technology

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

I'm always fascinated by the line "we don't want to become minorities in our own country". Why not? Are they treated badly or something?
-- Jim Rossignol (@jimrossignol)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JimRossignol #Discrimination #Hypocrisy

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

The chief cause of problems is solutions.
-- Eric Severeid

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EricSevereid #Problems #Solutions

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Experience #HumanBeings #Learning

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Democracy

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Kindness #Virtue

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnKennethGalbraith #Economics #Humor

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Children #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraTuchman #Learning #Experience

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Francis of Assisi

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisofAssisi #Necessity #Possibility

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Given a choice between a complex, difficult-to-understand, disconcerting explanation and a simplistic, comforting one, many prefer simplistic comfort if it's remotely plausible, especially if it involves blaming someone else for their problems.
-- Bob Lewis (Infoworld)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BobLewis #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Doubt #TheUnknown #Uncertainty

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Knowledge gained through experience of plants and animals is not an inferior substitute for proper scientific knowledge; it is the real thing. Direct experience is the only way to build up an understanding that is not only intellectual but intuitive and practical, involving the senses and the heart as well as the rational mind. Scientific investigations can illuminate and enrich this direct practical knowledge, but they are no substitute for it; indeed, they depend on it themselves.
-- Rupert Sheldrake (The Rebirth of Nature)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RupertSheldrake #Experience #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
-- George Santayana

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeSantayana #Progress

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Don't solve other people's problems when they can solve them perfectly well themselves. or... If it's their problem, make it their problem.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DonaldGauseGeraldWeinberg #ProblemSolving

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
-- Charles Darwin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CharlesDarwin #Confidence #Ignorance #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
-- Mark Twain

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Confidence #Ignorance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Reason is a biological product -- a tool whose power is inherently and substantially restricted. It has improved how we do things; it has not changed why we do things. The more fundamental "why" element is driven by instinctive self-preservation, emotional needs, and cultural attitudes. We are usually reluctant to admit the extent to which these forces govern our behavior, and accordingly we often recruit reason to explain and justify our actions.
-- Donald B. Calne (Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DonaldBCalne #HumanBehavior #Reason

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
-- Jacob Bronowski

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JacobBronowski #Action #Contemplation

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraTuchman #Learning #Experience

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeFWill #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication... the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Civilization

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
-- Isaac Asimov

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #AntiIntellectualism #Democracy #Ignorance #Knowledge #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure his bite.
-- Abraham Lincoln

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Conflict

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Success

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
-- Voltaire

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Boredom #Communication

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

It is a myth not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and a symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
-- Irwin Edman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IrwinEdman #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.
-- Flannery O'Connor

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FlanneryOConnor #Truth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

In a networked world, ubiquity conquers superiority -- a widely accepted technology will overwhelm even a technologically superior rival.
-- Kevin Kell & Gary Wolf

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KevinKellGaryWolf #Technology

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Science is a culture of doubt. Religion is a culture of faith.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Doubt #Faith #Religion #Science

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
-- Albert Camus

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertCamus #Autumn #Nature #Spring

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
-- Peter Cooper

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PeterCooper #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
-- Grace Slick

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceSlick #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Because you cannot see Him, God is everywhere.
-- Yasunari Kawabata

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #YasunariKawabata #God

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Genius is childhood recaptured at will.
-- Charles Baudelaire

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CharlesBaudelaire #Genius

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdsgerDijkstra #Improvement

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-Violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
-- Cesar Chavez

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CesarChavez #CivilDisobedience #NonViolence

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
-- Fred Brooks (On adding programmers to a late-running project)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FredBrooks #Computers #Programming

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
-- Umberto Eco

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #UmbertoEco #Creativity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

"A senior United States official" is a political appointee over 30. "A senior agency employee" is a midlevel careerocrat looking out a Langley window and dreaming about a book contract. No confidential informant is ever identified as "junior," which would impugn the status of the source.
-- William Safire

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamSafire #Journalism #Sources

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #Ignorance #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Always assume the best about your audience.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Presentations

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-- Vince Lombardi

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VinceLombardi #Confidence

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Experience #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
-- E. H. Gombrich

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EHGombrich #Illusion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Science is a fundamentally human endeavor, whose purpose is to help us understand the world, better our lives, feed our innate curiosity. It is meaningless, empty, and toxic if placed above or in opposition to human rights and human lives. Humanity and justice must come first.
-- Katie Mack (@astrokatie)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KatieMack #Curiosity #Science #Understanding

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you "play" with them!
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Computers

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TheodoreRoosevelt #Ideals #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Sam's Rules For Building A Business: 1. Commit to your business. 2. Share your profits with all your associates. 3. Motivate your partners. 4. Communicate everything you possibly can to your partners. 5. Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. 6. Celebrate your success. 7. Listen to everyone in your company. 8. Exceed your customers' expectations. 9. Control your expenses better than your competition. 10. Swim upstream.
-- Sam Walton

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SamWalton #Business

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos