#aim

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#believe #change #change the world #i #immediate

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#back #become #came #going #horizon

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#aims #design #either #java #match

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#congressman #could #i #introduce #me

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#biggest #claims #day #either #entire

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#clarify #colleagues #discussion #his #persuade

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #claim #fuss #i #know