Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

Susanna Moore

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Stephen Rodrick

There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.

Strobe Talbott

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Paul Dolan

There is no artificial cutoff on signing long-term deals.

Frank Thomas

We talked. But they didn't think I could hold up on the field turf, that's really what it came down to. With an injury like this, it's not ideal playing on an artificial turf surface.

Andy Coburn

I think beach nourishment is used to help sell housing projects and protect the towns' tax base. People have this idea of the Outer Banks as a wild, wind-swept destination and an artificial beach will take away that lure which in turn could hurt the economy.

Tom Walsh

I think that it is wrong. I haven't said this one time in 21 years of prosecuting, but I guarantee the appellate court is going to reverse it. It's the worst opinion I've seen - it has no basis in law. All he's doing is setting up an artificial roadblock in our attempt to bring her to justice. He is a judge, so I am not going to say anything disrespectful.

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Laura Bush

Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility,

Charles Grassley

He is willing to go to the countryside to work hard to sell this, ... I think he is going to have the capability of turning a lot of Democratic senators.

Robert Olstein

Here's a company that we think has free-cash-flow capability of between $1 and $1.25 a share, ... At this price, this would be an outstanding acquisition candidate.

Anthony Fauci

(HIV) is a retrovirus, and one that has the capability of inserting itself into a gene -- into the genes of our own cell and hiding there essentially indefinitely, so it shields itself from the surveillance of the body's immune system,

Mike Riley

I think it's exciting for everybody. I think everybody realizes what Joe has meant to the program and what capability that Joe has.

Madeline Albright

The purpose of this is to deter Slobodan Milosevic from continuing on his rampage and going in and torching, having his soldiers and his special police torch the villages. It is designed to deter that and also to damage his capability to do that.

O. Henry

We think China should have a military capability sufficient to meet its genuine security needs.

Janet Frank

It has been done before, but it's still a pretty rare procedure. The other option would be to freeze the skull, but we don't really have that capability here.

Jenny Tomanek

I think we are peaking at the right time. We are a very good volleyball team and I am excited about the capability of winning the regional.

Jean Renoir

Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.

Billy Graham

History is full of surprises, and the next century will be no exception.

Bill Ford

It is clear that individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology. That's what this program is all about.

Saddam Hussein

What does the despot of this century want? What is the right path to defeat him?

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize what a giant Eleanor Roosevelt was.

John Challenger

I think that the social compact hammered out in the mid-20th century has been superseded by a new compact that is different and doesn't promise the potential for lifetime tenure. Workers are free agents.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Gary Glenn

Patriotic Americans should observe a day of prayer and thanksgiving for this stunning and historic reversal of half a century of misinformation and judicial distortion of the document that protects our religious freedoms.

Craig Barrett

Investing in education and providing 21st century skills for students are fundamental components to the nation's continued growth and prosperity.

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.

Ian Pearson

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

Futurama

In the future, ... people will live twice as long, computers will die twice as fast.

Scott Michael Foster

I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

Jeff Lemire

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

Howard Taylor

I like doing both, taking photos and working with the computers.

Charleen Scott

If Jewel Quest was a person, I would punch them in the effing face.

Jon Oringer

In high school, I used to teach guitar and fix computers by the hour. I was looking for some way to make some cash, so I actually learned how to play guitar in order to try to teach it.

Larry Buchanan

I'm expecting to get a couple more years out of these computers.

Morris Gleitzman

Kids aren't political, but around 10 years old, they are beginning to develop the moral grounding that might later, in their teens, develop into their first real political perspectives.

Steven Liu

I wouldn't be surprised to hear of more acquisitions in other developed markets in the near future.

Mark Bailey

Kansas as a whole is mostly rural. How can we develop this model in a much more rural population? How do you do this in Hays, Great Bend, Salina? That's the next big issue.

Tony Russa

I actually think the wins in the minor leagues are more meaningful. You're developing prospects.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Jorma Ollila

Half of the mobile phones sold this year will be sold in developing countries.

Susumu Tonegawa

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Sugata Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Sean Casey

There are still mixed emotions. Everything I've done as a big leaguer has been with the Reds. I see those guys over there. I'm a human being. I like the guys in the Pirates' clubhouse. They've been good to me. But I developed a lot of relationships over there, too.

John Hackney

Jon Burke had a solid round. He was 3-under with six left, but made a double on a par 3, then bogeyed the tough par-3 17th to finish at even par.

Doug Chapman

What we had to do in doubles was play basic, solid tennis. The main thing with a lot of new kids is they want to hit winners or they want to push the ball. You need to be consistently firm. That?s what Eric does well, and that?s what Matt Dunne did in the second set.

Michael Farr

I think the economy is recovering and we won't get into a double dip. But trying to forecast when that economic strength shows up in earnings is a kind of fool's game. We've been playing it for about two-and-a -half years now,

Martina Navratilova

I think the (ATP) are just trying to get rid of doubles and they're doing it slowly,

Bob Hiester

Lacrosse is a space game, in terms of spreading the offense and running the fast break. You can't really get that in the gym. We got double the grass time that we've had up to this point.

Craig Mathews

We expect to double that in the next few years.

Hester Ready

Whatever I had last year, I'm trying to double it this year.

Vince Megna

There is a double standard in how they (auto manufacturers and dealers) treat people.

Kevin Osnes

We've got to limit their second and third chances. One and out is our goal. We're going to use some things defensively that we saw other teams use on them with success: Double teaming in the post and flashing from different areas.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Laurent Gbagbo

I think it has been one of the most successful boycotts in Africa. We're happy. Very few people voted.

Laurent Gbagbo

I think it has been one of the most successful boycotts in Africa, ... We're happy. Very few people voted.

Kyle Wilson

He is amazing. He'll be a handful to slow down.

Eleanor Catton

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.

John Brady

A handful of U.S. refineries are still down, and if the statistics show a bigger-than-expected draw, prices may rebound.

Brian Pearson

Everybody's looking for people. I need a handful of people.

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

It looks like at least a handful of constituencies will not be able to pass the 20 percent test.

Victoria Snelgrove

There were 80,000 people there that night, and just a handful of them wreaked havoc, ... How do we stop that? How do we get the message across?

Kevin Wilson

There's a handful right now that we're pursuing within the region. Some of those have already been offered, and we need to get them. Maybe that will help some of the attrition.

E. O. Wilson

There's a handful right now that we're pursuing within the region, ... Some of those have already been offered, and we need to get them. Maybe that will help some of the attrition.

Pete Scouras

They're going to be a handful all year, not just (tonight). He's got em playing like they're supposed to be playing and that's a tribute to him. He's done a whale of a job.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

David Cox

I pulled him from the car, ... There was some slight resistance. He didn't have hardly anything to say.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Bible Bible

And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.

John Newland

All we want is information. We're not hardly getting any information, and that's all we want.

Felix Magath

Everyone knows recent results have dented our confidence, so it was no surprise we were nervous at the start and hardly put together a move. We slowly got into the match before half-time. Taking the lead released a lot of the pressure, and after that we played like the league leaders.

Cody Daigle

This is it. The moment we've been working for. I can hardly wait.

Mel Stottlemyre

I would tell him what it's like and I wouldn't leave anything out, ... You've got to satisfy two sets of people here and it shouldn't be that way.

Leslie Moonves

Katie's someone we like a lot. But you know what? Katie's been at NBC a long, long time. We'll leave it at that.

Paul Sanders

I think I subconsciously do (try to leave people out). I don't want to be intruding in people's lives.

Steve Clarke

He leaves a strong legacy for the country.

Stephen Hunter

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Kenny Rogers

He's a dead-pull hitter. Leave it to me to get him to go the other way with what I throw.

Gordon Roberts

He's a worker. He never misses a day. He's (in the weight room) first and leaves last.

Jose Guillen

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

Ray Nagin

Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Woody Guthrie

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Rod Serling

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

Winston Churchill

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

Vikas Swarup

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

Wynton Marsalis

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Neal Stephenson

I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Christopher Shays

I will just say to you that I think it's really outrageous that we at least don't warn passengers that the cargo on a passenger plane has not been checked,

Roger King

They (bankruptcies) take a long time, they waste a lot of money, fees are outrageous and the process is adversarial, ... not going to happen.

Calvin Klein

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

Tom Robbins

Don't be outraged, be outrageous.

Nick Sullivan

He's probably worn his most outrageous (outfits) when he's in a video or on stage. What we photographed him in is very much what he wanted to wear.

James Ellroy

There's none with me, although you've seen me before - I'm outrageous.

Daphne Guinness

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Commissioner Robinson

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Craig Patrick

Not necessarily. He does have to get it surgically repaired, and he is going to get it done rather quickly. We'll see how quickly he can come back.

Paul Newton

It's different than university. Things have to be done quickly here. Timelines aren't as urgent at university.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Roald Amundsen

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

Jonny Greenwood

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

Tavis Smiley

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Ron Silver

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Tom Vilsack

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

James Galway

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Grant Heslov

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Rumi

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.