Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Nancy Gibbs

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Bertrand Russell

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Seth Numrich

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

David Suzuki

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Bill Nye

I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist.

Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Taylor Wilson

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Susumu Tonegawa

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

Donald Johanson

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do.

Bill Gates

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Larry Wall

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

Niklaus Wirth

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Eric S. Raymond

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

Rasmus Lerdorf

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

Ronald Fisher

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.