Sydney J. Harris

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.