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| < < | I don't believe we can defeat no axis of evil by putting smart bombs in the hands of dumb people. - Billy Bragg | |||||||
| > > | I don't believe we can defeat no axis of evil by putting smart bombs in the hands of dumb people. - Billy Bragg Waiting for the new world order | |||||||
| Excuse me, but just what was so hard to understand about this bunch? We knew they were dishonest. We knew they were fanatical. We knew they were purposely ignorant and bragged about not reading newspapers. We knew they were vindictive. We knew they were lawless. We knew they were obsessively secretive. We knew they had no time or patience for those who raised difficult questions. We knew they were driven by fantasies of religious warfare, personal vengeance and ideological triumph. We knew they had no respect for civil liberties. And we knew they took no responsibility for the consequences of their incompetence. Just what is surprising about the manner in which they've conducted the war? - Eric Alterman | ||||||||
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| < < | The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petrosky, To Engineer Is Human | |||||||
| > > | The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petroski, To Engineer Is Human (thanks to James Petroski (also with an "i" not a "y") for the correction) | |||||||
| La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever. - Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery (Source) | ||||||||