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"Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal." »Aristotle
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"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." »Marshall McLuhan
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"War is based on deception." »Sun-Tzu
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"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception." »Saul Bellow
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"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it." »Mark Leeper
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"The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties." »Oscar Wilde
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"Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience." »Leo Rosten
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"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu
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"All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him." »Sun-Tzu
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"I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible." »William James
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"The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception." »Edward Verall Lucas
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"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves." »Elias Canetti
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"deception is just a feeling that hold u down... pick up the peaces and move on... just like in the puzzle game....perseverence and practice are the source of experience." »Ngomu Franky
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"If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding." »Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch
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"There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." »Milton Friedman
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"It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle." »John Updike
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"There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially." »John Davy
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"Purpose without power is mere weakness and deception; and power without purpose is mere fatuity." »Sa?di
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