Jack Stultz > Jack's Quotes

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

“[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.]
Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box!
Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel!
Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that!
Hobbes: I'm looking it up.
Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js!
Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB?
Calvin: 957.”
― Bill Watterson, Scientific Progress Goes "Boink": A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
― Albert Einstein

“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”
― Rollo May, The Cry for Myth

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.”
― George W. Bush

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
― Sydney J. Harris

“Ethics change with technology.”
― Larry Niven, N-Space

“Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind.”
― Kim J. Vicente

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
― Steve Jobs

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

“Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
― Bill Watterson

“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo