Words & Letters“The greater the inequality in any society, the more perverse the use of experts will be. Because actual knowledge, actual expertise threatens those on the happy end of the inequality. The truth can be a weapon for anyone, so you can’t just let anyone have it.” – Michael Lewis
“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” – Alan Kay
“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.” ― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
“We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
― Dave Grohl
“If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy.” – Oliver Sacks