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  1. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
    -- Petronius Arbiter (circa 60 CE)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PetroniusArbiter #Confusion #Progress #Reorganization

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  2. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
    -- Petronius Arbiter (circa 60 CE)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PetroniusArbiter #Confusion #Progress #Reorganization

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  3. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
    -- Peter Ustinov

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PeterUstinov #Choices #UnitedStates

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  4. If your brain is always multitasking, or responding to technoprompts, there is no time or energy for undirected mental play. Furthermore, if you are consumed by the same information loop circulating around everyone else, you don't have anything to stimulate you into thinking differently. ... You don't have access to unexpected knowledge. You're just swept along in the same narrow current as everyone else, which is swift but not deep.
    -- David Brooks (Newsweek)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBrooks #Creativity #Multitasking #Play #Thinking

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  5. If your brain is always multitasking, or responding to technoprompts, there is no time or energy for undirected mental play. Furthermore, if you are consumed by the same information loop circulating around everyone else, you don't have anything to stimulate you into thinking differently. ... You don't have access to unexpected knowledge. You're just swept along in the same narrow current as everyone else, which is swift but not deep.
    -- David Brooks (Newsweek)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBrooks #Creativity #Multitasking #Play #Thinking

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  6. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
    -- C. P. Snow

    #Wisdom #Quotes #CPSnow #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  7. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
    -- C. P. Snow

    #Wisdom #Quotes #CPSnow #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  8. Forget about the moral imperative of creating a more stable, just world. The world is becoming increasingly connected and intertwined. Allowing injustice and human despair to fester will ultimately bring a pay back, even to those who might think they are most immune from it.
    -- Gerry McGovern (The Caring Economy)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #GerryMcGovern #Justice

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  9. Forget about the moral imperative of creating a more stable, just world. The world is becoming increasingly connected and intertwined. Allowing injustice and human despair to fester will ultimately bring a pay back, even to those who might think they are most immune from it.
    -- Gerry McGovern (The Caring Economy)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #GerryMcGovern #Justice

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  10. Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
    -- Socrates

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Socrates #Children

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  11. Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
    -- Socrates

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Socrates #Children

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  12. In the end, you're either a person who controls and uses computers or someone who is controlled and used by them.
    -- Andy Ihnatko

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AndyIhnatko #Computers

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  13. In the end, you're either a person who controls and uses computers or someone who is controlled and used by them.
    -- Andy Ihnatko

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AndyIhnatko #Computers

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  14. In the end, you're either a person who controls and uses computers or someone who is controlled and used by them.
    -- Andy Ihnatko

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AndyIhnatko #Computers

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  15. In the end, you're either a person who controls and uses computers or someone who is controlled and used by them.
    -- Andy Ihnatko

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AndyIhnatko #Computers

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  16. In the end, you're either a person who controls and uses computers or someone who is controlled and used by them.
    -- Andy Ihnatko

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AndyIhnatko #Computers

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  17. There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
    -- Ian McDonald

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  18. There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
    -- Ian McDonald

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  19. It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
    -- Rachel Carson (1953)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RachelCarson #Conservation #Nature

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  20. It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
    -- Rachel Carson (1953)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RachelCarson #Conservation #Nature

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  21. Tim was so learned he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
    -- Benjamin Franklin

    #Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminFranklin #Ignorance

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  22. Tim was so learned he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
    -- Benjamin Franklin

    #Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminFranklin #Ignorance

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  23. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
    -- Steve Jobs

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SteveJobs #Design

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  24. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
    -- Steve Jobs

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SteveJobs #Design

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  25. The genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology but it is really just marketing for power.
    -- Toni Morrison (Racism and Fascism)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ToniMorrison #Fascism #Marketing #Politics #Power

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  26. The genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology but it is really just marketing for power.
    -- Toni Morrison (Racism and Fascism)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ToniMorrison #Fascism #Marketing #Politics #Power

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  27. We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot -- a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right and eight holes in the middle -- how can they be expected to figure out today's computers, Web sites and portable gadgets?
    -- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RoryOConnor #Computers #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  28. We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot -- a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right and eight holes in the middle -- how can they be expected to figure out today's computers, Web sites and portable gadgets?
    -- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RoryOConnor #Computers #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah