Looking where? For what?

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
~ J.F. Kennedy

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
~ Groucho Marx

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
~ Isaac Asimov

Generations, character and science

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
~ George Orwell

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
~ Isaac Asimov

Each moment fits into eternity

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

Never explain -- our friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~ Elbert Hubbard

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ R. W. Emerson

Truth and Influence

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.
~ Chuck Reid

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Power lasts 10 years; influence not more than a hundred.
~ Korean proverb