Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Dan Farmer

Still, if they offer me a good job under my conditions - which is that I can do anything I want- then, sure. The NSA is not going to change me.

Paul Berg

Notably, some nations have enacted legislation that prohibits genetically-modified plants and animals from entering into their food supply.

Will Wright

We're experimenting with new ideas we can put into it, which makes it hard for me to say exactly when we will be done with them.

June Singer

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

Charles Davenport

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Dave Winer

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

Owen Chamberlain

Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

Franz Boas

Ethnological phenomena are the result of the physical and psychical character of men, and of its development under the influence of the surroundings.

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Jo Beverley

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

Jason Clarke

I was a designer at the University of Louisville taking classes (in the early 1990s) and working there and the Web happened. I was interested enough (in the Internet) to pursue it and learn about it. It was at a time that there was no education about Web design and Web development.

Tracey Black

I was concerned about it being special education classified. He explained that all we are doing is deferring two required classes until next year.

Laura Harper

I haven't made my schedule yet for next semester, but whatever classes 'Lang' is taking I am taking. She is very, very smart and she motivates me in the classroom and forces me to work harder. I like that.

Alan Hawkins

You don't have to pass these classes to go onto the next grade level.

Jenny Smith

It's so different and it's hard to readapt. Whole new classes and you dont' know where you're going.

Donald Ray Pollock

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

Eric Bryant

After studying with (Daly) for a couple of years, he started throwing classes my way.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Jacque Fresco

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

James Fallows

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

Jerry Costello

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Dave White

This is a unique program that rewards farmers and ranchers who are model conservationists and provides incentives for other producers to meet those same high standards of environmental performance.

Faisal Basri

It's too ridiculous from an environmental point of view, but also from a technical point of view too.

Mike Patton

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

Walt Whitman

I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

Joe Gibbs

That is my responsibility. Obviously, we want to be more productive than we were in the playoffs.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Tim Ferriss

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

David McCandless

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Richard Davidson

That is making it a lot more complicated for all social services, ... We are going to have to 'band' together to provide these services.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

Baruch Spinoza

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Dennis McBride

The time for talking is over; it?s time to remedy the situation,

Emanuel Celler

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Victor Hugo

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Margaret Drabble

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Matthew Scully

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

John Rawls

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

Oscar Wilde

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

Isabel Allende

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

Franz Kafka

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

Bernadette Devlin

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?