The fickle populace always change with the prince.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
Seems like we always spend the best part of our time. . . just saying goodbye.
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, just as tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex, & seamless sounds of a symphony orchestra
Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.