#vent

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#life #most #oneself #prevent #prolonged

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#appropriate #conceived #i #invented #thought

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#chrysler #days #extended #guess #had

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. ↗

— Janis Ian

#clear #high #high school #i #learned

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#before #bread #bringing #business #capitalism

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. ↗

— James Iha

#artist #bands #emerging #i #i love

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

— Daisaku Ikeda

#further #modernization #must #nuclear #nuclear weapons