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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.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
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?
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
