#purpose

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose. ↗

— Kel Mitchell

#felt #got #had #invisible #like

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bite #could #criminal #curiosity #even

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#empty #mind #open #purpose #replace

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#empty #mind #open #purpose #replace

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes. ↗

— Barney Frank

#committee #ethics #hold #knew #looked

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#here #improper #me #noun #proper

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#every #forcing #him #life #long