Category: quotes

“Apple AND Google have together more money than anyone except God, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.”

Robert X. Cringely, “The Power of Six: Google’s plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks.” [pbs.org]

“Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory thoughts. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!”

Big Brother, Apple 1984 Macintosh commercial

See the commercial here [pulsar.esm.psu.edu] read about it here [wikipedia.org].

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man.

“…empires rise only to fall.”

Guy Gugliotta, ‘The Maya Glory and Ruin’, National Geographic, August 2007

“I don’t believe in bibles: no book has a monopoly on truth”

Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, Preface to the 1990 edition