#form

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#amount #attempt #consequent #figures #greed

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. ↗

— Hippocrates

#fact #former #ignorance #in fact #knowledge

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#comparison #conception #else #formerly #glory

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. ↗

— Dee Hock

#clothing #follows #forms #future #past

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years. ↗

— Dee Hock

#collective #entire #few #going #i

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. ↗

— Dee Hock

#capacity #clearly #first #form #go

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information. ↗

— Dee Hock

#deal #expansion #huge #information #language

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. ↗

— Dee Hock

#ephemeral #form #substance

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. ↗

— Dee Hock

#business #closest #closest thing #expense #form

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him. ↗