Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

optimism is a disease

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Sarah Dessen

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Kent Beck

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Joseph Stiglitz

I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.

Woody Allen

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.

Walt Whitman

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

David Boothe

Effectively reporting seismic hazards considerably reduces vulnerability to it, if not totally eliminates it,

John Fowles

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

Andrew Ferguson

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

John Milton

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

Henry Mintzberg

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Laurie Garrett

We can see hazards approaching and we have time to actually do something.

Mike Rippee

Kids can also just go on the computer and the Internet and get what they want. When I was growing up in Yerington 30 years ago, we didn't have any of those things.

James Altucher

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

John Flaherty

He's a very detail-oriented guy. For this job, he's got a great combination of old-school work ethic - knowing how to put the time in - and the new generation that uses computers and video to get as much information as possible.

Ken Dunham

It is already underway and will be activated unless people get removal tools. If you have opened an e-mail and your computer froze up, you should be very concerned.

Cary Fukunaga

I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.

Fred Rose

Whatever they end up doing as adults, they'll have to be highly technical and computer literate.

Jon Oringer

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

Paul Duca

We're on the computer e-mailing each other about trades and stuff. There's a lot of trash talking.

Megan Smith

There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.