General competence is on the fucking decline.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.
The boiling water that does not cool down only dries out!
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...