“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”
― Eric Hoffer (1898-1983)
“Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.”
― Eric Hoffer (1898-1983)
"The purpose of computers is human freedom."
— Ted Nelson
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view”
― Max Planck (1858-1947)
"Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. … Nature does not act by purposes."
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
Purpose “ … was the first phenomenon of life: the first step
from a universe in which entropy and chaos held sway toward
one in which purposes residing in organisms direct external
physical processes and create new physical relationships”.
—William Powers