J. Sterling Quotes
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.
My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.
A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs
Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
People feel certain things. Hispanics feel certain things towards blacks. Blacks feel certain things towards other groups. It's been that way historically and it will always be that way.
As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)
And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
