1316) We are a nation of 50,000,000 VCRs flashing "12:00", "12:00".

Jeff Greenfield
on C-SPAN (9/15/1995)

1317) The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Pythagoras
cited by Diogenes Laertius in
"Life of Pythagoras" in
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
(c. 200)
posted by Dan Hayner [IQM] (9/20/1995)

1318) [E]verything a human being wants can be divided into four components--love, adventure, power and fame.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (attributed)
posted by Dan Hayner [IQM] (9/20/1995)

1319) [Three classes:] Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci (attributed)
posted by Dan Hayner [IQM] (9/20/1995)

1320) [A]bout half the people alive today have never made a telephone call.

George I. Zysman
"Wireless Telephony for Developing Countries"
Scientific American (9/1995)

1321) [M]ore than half the world's population lives more than two hours' travel from the nearest telephone.

Russell Daggatt
"Satellites for a Developing World"
Scientific American (9/1995)

1322) What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Herbert A. Simon
quoted by Hal. R. Varian in
"The Information Economy" in
Scientific American (9/1995)

1323) If you provide Internet access to an inefficient business, you have merely given it the ability to be inefficient instantaneously, in front of 30 million potential clients.

Clay Shirky
"Wired Money"
Scientific American (9/1995)

1324) John Donne wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself." True enough, and true of countries, too, although Americans find the concept annoying. In physical terms, Americans view the U.S., like some classical physics experiment, as immune to outside influence. But the truth is that the economy is an open system and always have been.

Donald N. McCloskey
"The Analytic Economist: The Gulliver Effect"
Scientific American (9/1995)

1325) Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Hoyle
The Observer (9/9/1979)
posted by Chris West [ISQ] (9/14/1995)