Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Bruce Davison

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Albert Einstein

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Steven Johnson

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

Stephen Hawking

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen King

Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.

Stephen Hawking

Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

Stephen Hawking

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

Andy Rooney

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

Robert Frost

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Thomas Huxley

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Tony Hsieh

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.

Steve Nash

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

Veronica Roth

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

Tony Gonzalez

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

Robbie Keane

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

Marisha Pessl

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Pat Abeln

An engineer is designing the runway right now.

Brian O'Neill

The solutions to the problem are relatively simple. We can design seats and head restraints that are not expensive, that can eliminate a lot of these injuries.

Charles Curtis

The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed,

Alice Fisher

The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

Bruce Barbour

The Stewards Program is an immersion experience designed to give an overview and excite an interest in future study.

John Gibbons

You saw it all tonight -- by design.

Oleg Cassini

A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.

Jamie Zawinski

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.