A razzmatazz of quotes and proverbs

1.The corporations don't have to lobby the government any more.They are the government.-Jim Hightower
2.A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force.-William Blum
3.The news and the truth are not the same thing.-Walter Lippmann
4.Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.-William Blum
5.During times of universal deceit,telling the truth is revolutionary.-George Orwell
6.Our aspirations are our possibilities.-Samuel Johnson
7.First deserve,and then desire.-English proverb
8.Nothing fails like success.-Gerald Nachman
9.A hundred men may make an encampment,but it takes a woman to make a home.-Chinese proverb
10.I don't care if my reporters are sleeping with elephants,as long as they aren't covering the circus.-A.M.Rosenthal,executive editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES.
11.Computers double their performance every 18 months.So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world.-Stephen Hawking,astrophysicist(b.1942)
12.We may have trouble defining intelligence but we recognize it when we see it.-Steven Pinker(b.1954),U.S.cognitive scientist and author.
13.The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limits of our intelligence,not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.-Norbert Wiener(1894-1964),U.S.mathematician