jonathan butz

If you would be known and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know and not be known, live in a city.
-Charles Caleb Colton

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

Don’t touch that dial.
And if you’re TV does have a dial, get yourself a new TV.
-Stephen Colbert

Errare humanum est. Perseverare diabolicum.
To err is human. To repeat is of evil.
-Seneca the Younger

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
-Dan Quayle

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination–and taxes.
-HE Martz

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
-Henry Kissinger

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I’m frightened of the old ones.
-John Cage

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-GM Trevelyan

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
-Carl Sagan

“Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance — which you should be feeding with rumor and generalization.” -Source unknown