Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Robert Nozick

When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.

Virginia Woolf

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life…

Rebecca Solnit

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

Joseph Joubert

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Paul Vixie

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.

Pete Seeger

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Robert Caro

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Robert Caro

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Kenneth Williams

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Evan Depew

They're starting to make programs that can show everyone your cards, if one guy's winning a whole lot get out of it.

Jeanne Johnson

There will be a program practically every day of the month.

Brian Postol

There's a long way to go for these guys, but I think their programs are the right ones.

Paul Martini

This is validation. You can't just come out and do a quad ... you have to come with a program that is well choreographed, well skated and well presented.

Sandy Williams

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good