"Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."

-- Richard Hamming

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“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.133, Random House
“If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.”
“The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.”
“I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.”
“A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.162, Transaction Publishers
“The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.”
“To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
“Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.”

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