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Category = ‘quotations’
Apr 2008
21
Computer viruses
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image..
Apr 2008
11
Computers
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done. Andy Rooney
Apr 2008
3
Quality vs. price
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey. John Ruskin
Apr 2008
1
Humility and the popes
Susie and I recently returned from a few days in Rome, courtesy of her great aunt. I have wanted to visit the Eternal City for years, mostly to see the Roman ruins, which are, well, ruins, but still s..
Mar 2008
7
Evangelical humility
Evangelicals need to approach their theological formulae with more humility than in the past. It is the scriptural word that is infallible, not our ever imperfect attempts to restate it in appropriate..
Mar 2008
6
Politics
The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’. Larry Hardiman
Jan 2008
24
Predestination and responsibility
Matthew 18.7 says this: ‘Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!’ We have here an example of how difficult ..
Jan 2008
4
The Sun
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso
Dec 2007
16
Explosions
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. Jef Raskin
Dec 2007
8
Free Speech
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard