Aphorisms

• If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
  - A. Maslow
• If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.
  - F. Menger
• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
  - O. Wilde
• The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
  - O. Wilde
• We should make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
  - A. Einstein
• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
  - A. Einstein
• By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
  - R. Frost
• Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
  - G. Orwell
• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
  - I. Kant
• Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.
  - A. Einstein
• We are now at the end of the beginning.
  - W. Churchill
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
  - L. A. Seneca
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
  - A. Einstein
• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your live.
  - Confucius
• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
  - Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
  - Plutarch
• The best way to predict your future is to create it.
  - Peter Drucker
• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
  - Arthur C. Clarke
• The moment we stop fighting for each other, that's the moment we lose our humanity.
  - Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich
• We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
  - A. Einstein
• The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are undistinguishable from it.
  - M. Weiser, Chief Scientist at Xerox PARC
• The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others.
  - Simone de Beauvoir
• If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
  - Lewis Carroll
• Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
  - Bob Dylan

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