"The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself."

-- H. L. Mencken

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“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?”
“The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.”
“If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.”

Source : "Chanur's Legacy". Book by C. J. Cherryh, 1992.
“Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.”
“Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organizationâ€”a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.”

Source : Anthony D. Williams, Don Tapscott (2011). “Wikinomics”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Once you make the unequivocal internal commitment to do something - when you absolutely know this is the time and the place to act - the world around you will shift in all sorts of apparently miraculous ways to make it happen.”
“An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?”

Source : Alfréd Rényi (1984). “A diary on information theory”

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