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Eric Scoles's Quotes

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
— Marx and Engels

Adam Greenfield, on a weakness of systems theory for problem solving.

[H]history suggests that one is not well advised to bring a spreadsheet to a gun fight.
— Adam Greenfield
http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/on-systems-and-what-they-do/

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

— David Foster Wallace

'cause the point of a gun was the only law Liberty understood...

— Hal David

Lincoln on the Reality of Feeling

Whether [a] feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed, it is any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, can not be safely disregarded.

Alan Moore on Anarchy

[A]narchy is about taking complete responsibility for yourself. And I would extend that into the spiritual area, with the differences between religion and magic.

Chandler on Art

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
— Raymond Chandler
http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html

Kruger-Dunning Effect

“ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”

 

— Philip K. Dick


 

— Saki


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