The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information, in the sense of raw data, is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea, in science, politics, art, or whatever, seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
1. It's completely impossible: don't waste my time.
2. It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
3. I said it was a good idea all along.
Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.
Consciousness is prior to nothingness and "is derived" from being.
All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
The funniest things are the forbidden.
There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.
Faith and reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself. Yourself is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing.