"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions"

-- Whitfield Diffie

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“The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.”

Source : "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.
“Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.”
“Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is - Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.”
“Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.”
“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”
“Baseball player: "What time is it?" "You mean now?"”
“I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.”
“One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so would enable him to bid more effectively for a house in a better school district. But if other workers did likewise, none would achieve the goal they were striving for.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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