"People buy products for what they can do, not for what they are."

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Buck Rodgers

“I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”

Source : "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.
“I've learned all I need to know to live under a bed.”
“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”
“Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle." "Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly. Ian grinned. "Exactly.”
“His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”
“There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.”
“Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.”

Source : "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.
“Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?”

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