#ode

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#modern #pleasure #provides #speed

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#me #modern #pleasure #provides #seems

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#because #cool #delivered #finally #glass

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#because #both #cannot #choose #code

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#open #open source #other #our #projects

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#further #modernization #must #nuclear #nuclear weapons

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#already #biological #christianity #fulfilled #impossible

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#alone #born #environment #growth #his