"No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it."

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Source : Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.579, Princeton University Press

Carl von Clausewitz

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“If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.
“How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann
“Let's call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental designator if that is not the case. Of course we don't require that the objects exist in all possible worlds.... When we think of a property as essential to an object we usually mean that it is true of that object in any case where it would have existed. A rigid designator of a necessary existent can be called strongly rigid.”
“It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.”

Source : New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1993.
“Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.”
“The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.”
“What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.”

Source : "'Off-the-shelf' hack breaks wireless encryption" by Daniel Sieberg, www.cnn.com. August 11, 2001.
“Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.”

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