Elizur Wright famous quotes

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
-- Elizur Wright

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An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Why don't you light that candle ?

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.