Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Tracy Morgan

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

Jim Fassel

I'm trying to tweak things, ... because we've got to get our running game going. It's the foundation for us.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.

Christie Brinkley

This marriage is forever. We have a foundation of love and honesty and respect, and we're a real team. Peter is the greatest father, so involved.

Carl Jung

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Robyn Jones

Perhaps the foundation should be established first before $1.6-million is spent.

Rob Brydon

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Richard P. Feynman

What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Richard P. Feynman

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Robert Toth

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

William Powell

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

William Joyce

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Winston Churchill

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Winston Churchill

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Richard P. Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Whately

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

William S. Burroughs

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Woody Allen

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!