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Tag Archives: The New Yorker
Two Quotes of the Day: Adam Gopnik on the Internet & Consciousness
Two Quotes of the Day: Adam Gopnik on the Internet & Consciousness Our trouble is not the over-all absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity, and no machine, or mind, seems extended enough to cure that. Some machine … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Quotations
Tagged Adam Gopnik, good quotes, Has the Internet changed how we think, kids and the Internet, machine, modern society and the Internet, pure power of stupidity, quote of the day, The Internet; consciousness, the Internets effect on the mind, the mind, The New Yorker
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Diplomats & Dragons
Diplomats & Dragons “A sincere diplomat, Stalin once said, “is like dry water or wooden iron.” (from a “Talk of the Town” piece by Lizzie Widdicombe in December 13, 2010 issue of The New Yorker.) While Stalin’s off-hand characterization of … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Prose
Tagged diplomacy, diplomats, dragons, Josef Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Lizzie Widdicombe, Stalin's victims, Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, Wickileaks
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