Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

William Hung

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

William Bennett

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

H. P. Lovecraft

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

Hugh Hefner

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

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.

Fred Rose

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

Paul Duca

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

Richard P. Feynman

What I can't create I don't understand

Ian Pearson

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

John Taylor

I gave the idea to Josh and he just went with it. In 2001, he had most of the parts made. It's made with a lot of old computer parts.

Dana Harville

In our opinion, online ordering is the wave of the future. However, today, the vast majority of people pick up their telephone and not a computer keyboard to place their pizza order.

Kevin Hause

By internalizing their Internet services instead of outsourcing them, it could be a good thing for Gateway. It's not critical, though. They're doing well with their hardware, their personal computer sales, so it's not as important overall.

Markus Persson

I'm worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun.