Moritz Wallawitsch

“Could it be that the moral imperative not to destroy the means of correcting mistakes is the only moral imperative?”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Steve Jobs

“The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violently forced him to do so. As to-day, his surroundings do not so force him, the everlasting mass-man, true to his character, ceases to appeal to other authority and feels himself lord of his own existence. On the contrary the select man, the excellent man is urged, by interior necessity, to appeal from himself to some standard beyond himself, superior to himself, whose service he freely accepts...Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, and not the common man who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendental. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline — the noble life.”
― José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses

“the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.”
― Vannevar Bush, Science: The Endless Frontier