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• Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
  -- Joseph Wood Kruch...
• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
  -- Joseph Wood Krutch...
• we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in i
  he question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past....
• One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in greatest simplicity.
  -- J. Willard Gibbs, Collected Works, v.1; p. 10....
• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
• If there is any one secret to success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.
  -- Henry Ford...
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• bells and whistles: [by analogy with the toyboxes on theater organs] n.
  Features added to a program or system to make it more {flavorful} from a hacker's point of view, without necessarily adding to its utility for its primary function....