“Only to the extent that a man has emancipated himself [...] from all that is generic, does he count as a free spirit within a human community. No man is all genus, none is all individuality.”
― Rudolf Steiner, 1894

“Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.”
― Allen Newell, 1975

“[T]he kind of linguistic recoding that people do seems to me to be the very lifeblood of the thought processes.”
― George Armitage Miller, 1956

“A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.”
― George F. Kennan, 1954

“[T]here is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― H. L. Mencken, 1917

“Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behaviour of the whole.”
― Murray Gell-Mann, 1997

“In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.”
― Michael Crichton

“Vision is a process that produces from images of the external world a description that is useful to the viewer and not cluttered with irrelevant information.”
― David Marr, 1978

“Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both the principles and ontology of that theory will eventually be displaced, rather than smoothly reduced, by completed neuroscience.”
― Paul Churchland

“Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger.”
― Mike Godwin

“The idea that all our pursuits can be distilled into neatly-defined objectives and then almost mechanically pursued offers a kind of comfort against the harsh unpredictability of life. There’s something reassuring about the clockwork dependability of a world driven by tidy milestones laid out reliably from the starting line. [...] Objectives might sometimes provide meaning or direction, but they also limit our freedom and become straitjackets around our desire to explore. After all, when everything we do is measured against its contribution to achieving one objective or another, it robs us of the chance for playful discovery. So objectives do come with a cost.”
― Kenneth Stanley, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

-: "No brain?"
-: "Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"
-: "So... what does the thinking?"
-: "You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."
-: "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
-: "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"

— Terry Bisson, They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

Debian is like religion: releases are far and few between, but can stand the test of time.
Arch is like law: releases are on a roll and cutting-edge, but there is less stability.

“All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.”
― Thomas Carlyle, 1832

“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)

“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
― Murray Bookchin, 1990

“Settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.”
― Patrick Wolfe

“The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.”
― Smedley Butler, 1933

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“Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones.”
— Marvin Minsky, 1981

“Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.”
— David Ricardo, 1810