We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
~ John Steinbeck
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
~ Richard Rorty
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. It has always bothered me how even ordinary conversations tend to be defined by what we tell rather than by what we ask. Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
~ Peter Drucker
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We have now, for better or worse, entered the Age of Artificial Intelligence. AI is already good at regurgitating information from a lecture. AI is already good at standardized tests. AI can already write papers that would get A’s at Harvard. If you’re hiring the students who are good at those things, you’re hiring people whose talents might soon be obsolete.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Expending energy trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great