#sole

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. ↗

— Tom Holt

#else #incentive #inefficient #knows #lunchtime

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. ↗

— King Hussein I

#become #beliefs #believe #flexible #god

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#else #feasts #must #rare #solemn

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#logic #malice

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. ↗

— Paul Graham

#corporate #ladder #most #obsolete #people

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#coarse #defending #die #form #head

The sole equality on earth is death. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#earth #equality #sole

Serious journalism need not be solemn. ↗

— Russell Baker

#need #serious #solemn

TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#agenda #because #completely #like #liked

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #exclusive #goal #sole #taste