Our Ignorance Must Necessarily be Infinite

Image by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ via FlickrWe often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those who find us boring. – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld




As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. – Robert Quillen



Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. – Cecil Beaton



The law of Raspberry Jam. The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. – Alvin Toffler



To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. – Henry David Thoreau



Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. – Sir Karl Popper



It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. – Jo

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Filling Stations are the True Agents of Decentralization

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Keep your eye on the filling station, it is the true agent of decentralization. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Regorganization is the permanent codition of a vigorous organization. – Roy L. Ash

Order marches with weighty and measure strides, disorder is always in a hurry. – Napoleon Bonaparte

A good organization tends to simplicity: and, when a wise method is proposed, people are ready to say how self-evident it is. But, without the few men who perceive these self-evident things, the business of the world would go on even worse than it does. – Sir Arthur Helps

Major decisions usually require predictions about the future. – Harry A. Bullis

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make the decision. – Lucius, Second Lord Falkland

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. – Alvin Toffler

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