Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Category: Inspirational
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Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards — and even then I have my doubts.
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
A Multitasking Timex Sinclair
Start slow and taper off.
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up — and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.