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  1. Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have. |
     

    On Mankind

    #872

  2. In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. |
     

    On Poetry

    #871

  3. I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. |
     

    On Technology

    #870

  4. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. |
     

    On Poetry

    #868

  5. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #867

  6. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. |
     

    On Knowledge & Intelligence

    #866

  7. Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. |
     

    On Knowledge & Intelligence

    #865

  8. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #863

  9. To find ideas, find problems. To find problems, talk to people. |
     

    On Creativity

    #862

  10. It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people to tell us what to do. |
     

    On Career

    #861

  11. Leave it better than you found it. |
     

    On Career

    #860

  12. It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #858

  13. Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. |
     

    On Knowledge & Intelligence

    #857

  14. Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours. |
     

    On Design

    #856

  15. L'arbre est devant la fenêtre du salon. Je l'interroge chaque matin: Quoi de neuf aujourd'hui? La réponse vient sans tarder, donnée par des centaines de feuilles: Tout. |
     

    On Happiness

    #855

  16. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #854 source

  17. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. |
     

    On Technology

    #852

  18. I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. |
     

    On Mankind

    #851

  19. Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. |
     

    On Technology

    #850

  20. I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. |
     

    On Knowledge & Intelligence

    #821

  21. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. |
     

    On Knowledge & Intelligence

    #820

  22. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. |
     

    On Love

    #819

  23. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. |
     

    On Knowledge & Intelligence

    #818

  24. In the New Earth we are creating, we need lusty compassion and ecstatic duty, ingenious love and insurrectionary beauty. We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks. |
     

    On Knowledge & Intelligence

    #849