Bart Kosko quotes

“The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.”
-- Bart Kosko

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“Learning means change.”
-- Bart Kosko

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“Death is an engineering problem.”
-- Bart Kosko

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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”

“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”

“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”

“He hit that one like an arrow”

“So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.”

“The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.”

“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.”

“But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.”

Source : Billy Collins (2012). “Nine Horses”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

“Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.”

Source : "On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno". Interview with Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press