What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Discovery
[Quoting from TV Guide] "As a result, TV horror may be returning to its roots -- when psychological terror and subtlety had more impact than an ax to the head." There are, of course, no such roots, in television or anywhere else. The horrid tradition began in The Castle of Otranto, with a boy crushed under a gigantic helmet -- nothing subtle or psychological about that.
The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years Of Scary Entertainment
When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.
"Arthur Machen: The Mystery of the Universe" in The Weird Tale
There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.
In the Toronto Globe and Mail, Dec. 28, 1974
Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
"Physics and Reality", Franklin Institute Journal March 1936
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature. It's startling every time it occurs. One is surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realized in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great, great joy.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities -- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry -- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
Timescape
I could never sleep my way to the top / 'Cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up.
"Hey, Mr DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal"
One grows tired of jelly babies, Castellan. One grows tired of almost everything, Castellan, except power.
In David Agnew's The Invasion of Time
No matter how hard you try, there is always going to be someone more underground than you.
"My Life Underground", in Marshall Delaney at the Movies
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
The Natural History, tr. Philemon Holland
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.
It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence of discoveries, and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin, though recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder and the magnet [i.e. Mariner's Needle]. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world.
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.
In a Globe & Mail interview
And if you give us any more trouble I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress.
"Mrs. Richards"
Predicting the future, as we all know, is risky. Predicting the evolution of new technology is downright hazardous.
Child pornography -- I never heard of it as a problem five years ago, but now it's brought up constantly. I think it's the new Red-baiting. The people in Burma don't understand how it is that we are focusing our whole crypto policy on catching child pornographers. If you think that cryptography is good for society you have to apologize and say that you are against child pornography... The fact that I even have to say that is an indication of how effective this Red-baiting is... I think that we can't let our civil liberties for the society at large be determined by government policy towards a tiny segment of the criminal population.
An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use.
Data Structures and Program Design
1) A strong belief is more important than a few facts.
2) The stronger the belief, the fewer the facts.
3) The fewer the facts, the more people killed.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.
The Canadian Establishment
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
The Origin of Species
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
Say Uncle
It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behaviour, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
"Politique fonctionnelle"
The Cross is a gibbet -- rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?
The Brazen Horn
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, / But Genius must be born; and can never be taught.
The more efficient computers become at inducing new knowledge, the more widely that knowledge will be applied, even in matters of life and death. It is essential that such knowledge be open to inspection. This means that designers of learning systems have a public duty to use comprehensible description languages -- even if that means sacrificing performance. Otherwise we run the risk of generating truly "unknowable knowledge."
"Machine Learning for Expert Systems"