More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
