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"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."-- Edward O. Wilson
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.-- Earl Wilson
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.-- Sloan Wilson
The unique operations of the (human) brain are the result of natural selection operating through the filter of culture. They have suspended us between the two antipodal ideals of nature and machine, forest and city, the natural and the artifactual, relentlessly seeking, in the words of geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, an equilibrium not of this world.-- Edward O. Wilson ("Biophilia")
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users.'-- Edward Tufte
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.-- Earl Wilson
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.-- Edward Abbey
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."-- Edward Gibbon
All good work is done in defiance of management.-- Bob Woodward
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."-- Edward Abbey
"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."-- Sloan Wilson
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.-- Edward Flaherty
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to be insane in such a useful way that they can't commit you."-- Mark Edwards
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."-- Kristian Wilson (Nintendo Inc. 1989)
Human behavior changes only under the impact of new technology
(Paraphrase of Moon's First Law, from Schrodinger's Cat by R.A. Wilson)
The reward for a job well done is more work.
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."-- Henry Ward Beecher
To be modest is to understand oneself as being capable of all men's weaknesses.-- Bernard of Clairvaux
"Love makes you do the wacky"-- Willow