Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Mossberg

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

Vivek Wadhwa

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

Bill Calder

The Pentium name is the quintessential name of the gigahertz era. The gigahertz era is over.

Brian Kernighan

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

Brian Kernighan

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Neil Kurshan

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

Rick Perlstein

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Nina Easton

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.

Nick Jonas

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Bertrand Russell

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Kerry Collins

That was a tough way to open up the season ... all the hype and everything and playing in New England, which is about as tough a place as you can play,

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Matthew Quick

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Jacques Santini

We have a lot of respect for England,

Bill Cummings

We've made many great matches. In fact, one of our matches is taking a trip to England this spring. They don't all turn out that way, but you never know.

William Shakespeare

I cannot speak your england.

Joseph Banks

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

David Beckham

Whoever comes in as England manager it is up to him to pick the new captain, but at the end of the day I'm not going to give it up easily. There are the European championships to come and then maybe another World Cup.

Victoria Osteen

God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

Carl Sagan

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

Orhan Pamuk

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Dirk Johnson

You always worry about something like that. You have to feel fortunate everyday that you can walk into a locker room and be a part of a good organization. I'm not saying it's keeping me up at night but it's always in the back of your head.

Pixie Lott

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

Aaron Miles

I'm still here, still getting starts, still getting at-bats, so I feel like I'm one of the options. I'm not sure if they've made their mind up over who's going to be the everyday starter or where I fit in the mix, but I feel like I'm at least somewhere in that equation.

Terrika Cross

I'm strong. I'm a survivor, and I thank God now everyday for my life.

Gretchen Rubin

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

Mike McGlone

Those are just some of the ways NASA is related to everyday life.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Bob Parks

A lot of makers and inventors are really proud of their barbecue-powered pool heater, or whatever it is.

Emo Philips

You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!

Roy Moore

I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.

Robert Dallek

Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons,

Eileen Hawley

Kennedy does remain the prime landing target for tomorrow.

Jackie Kennedy

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.

Melissa Wagoner

Sen. Kennedy spoke to Sen. Stevens in support of this provision.

Stephanie Cutter

Senator Kennedy has been waiting for the right invitation.

Maria Shriver

When I look in the mirror, I don't just see a first lady, I don't just see a Kennedy or a Schwarzenegger, I don't just see a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister and a friend, and thank God, I don't see Warren Beatty.

Tamara Feldman

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Arnon Goldfinger

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Steve Howard

We've got some things started I'd like to see completed. A lot of it is infrastructure in town I'd like to see upgraded.

Zona Jones

I think I was the only one in town that day when the show was announced.

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Keith Smith

I don't think it's appropriate on a town ballot.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Ken Leavitt

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

John Montgomery

It's useful to validate specifications as they go through standardization.

John Stone

They were toast, pretty much done. Most of the harbors were at the end of their useful life.

Christopher Hill

as long as I feel it is useful to be here.

Susan Wyderko

Disclosures are only as useful as they are available.

Ellen Terry

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Bertrand Russell

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Eric Frankel

We have more programming in our warehouse than we can monetize on traditional TV,

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

William Shakespeare

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

Baz Luhrmann

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

Patricia Schroeder

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.