Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches... →
Douglas Rushkoff
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs... →
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our... →
John Ruskin
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because... →
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition... →