"I'm a member of that half of the……" — John Perry Barlow
"I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance."
—
John Perry Barlow
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
47 Quotes by John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow has 47 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
-
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
-
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
-
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
-
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than…
-
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world…
-
The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating…
-
I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.
-
I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was…
-
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since…
-
One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate…
-
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own
See all 47 quotes by John Perry Barlow »
More Certainty Quotes
This quote is filed under Certainty Quotes,
one of 970 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
-
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
-
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
-
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
-
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
-
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
-
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
-
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
-
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
-
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
See all 970 Certainty Quotes »