More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
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.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
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.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
