"The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information."

-- Norbert Wiener

#War Quotes #Ideas Quotes #World Quotes

“I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.”
“Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.”
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
“If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.”
“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.”

Source : "The Brain is Wider Than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard - review" by Simon Ings, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2011.
“I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.”
“No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.”
“Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.”

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