More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
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 whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
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.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
