#motormill — Public Fediverse posts
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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Lord Brougham -
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Lord Brougham -
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Lord Brougham -
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Lord Brougham -
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Lord Brougham -
When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits -- despotic in his ordinary demeanor -- known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty -- when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity -- to join in the cry of danger to liberty -- to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion -- to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day -- It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may "ride the storm and direct the whirlwind."
-- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Government #Opportunism #Politics #Tyranny
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The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming -
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming -
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming -
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming -
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming -
The real lesson of the past is that it shows us what can be done for the future.
-- Margaret Sanger