"Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace."

-- Vernor Vinge

#Ideas Quotes #Progress Quotes #Corny Quotes

“Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.”
“Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.”
“I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”
“I'm really glad my food comes murdered.”
“The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.”
“A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”

Source : David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press
“A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.”
“And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.”

Source : Interview with John Sears, RTNDA Communicator (RTNDA - Radio Television Digital News Association), Volume 54, August 2000.

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