Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Andy Hertzfeld

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

Vinton Cerf

Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies.

Vinton Cerf

People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.

Vint Cerf

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Vint Cerf

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

Mariah Carey

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Hugo Gernsback

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

Wilbur Wright

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Detective Lopez

Kenyon Martin is sitting on the bench when a fan begins to heckle him. Martin stands up, turns around and addresses the fan. Then he sits back down.

Swami Sivananda

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Diane Phillips

Just like a Super Bowl football team, you need a game plan to pull off a successful party. That plan begins with the decision to throw a party and doesn't end until you return the last rented or borrowed item.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Caroline Williams

I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good job of hitting the open person, whether it was me or Tina. We were all just seeing each other really well and running the floor.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Will Durant

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the world.

Mark Owens

It begins with the growing realization that another ? the mother ? has it, she has control over it, and she's not you.

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.

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,

Michael Ramsey

Ken did make optimistic statements. What do you expect the CEO to do in a situation like this? He was not lying. He was telling the truth as he saw it. He believed ... and he was fighting a battle.

Marcia Angell

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

Tony Bennett

I always believed that we were going to be here. I never gave up.

Zahir Raheem

I always believed in myself when nobody else would, ... I worked hard. It wasn't a gift. I earned it.

Kathryn Minshew

The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in.

Loretta Young

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories-the hero was the hero-because that's what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away.

Darren Shan

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

Jake Delhomme

I was encouraged, very encouraged -- we'll leave it at that.

Jonas Bjorkman

I play singles and doubles, and I think that's what every player should be encouraged to do.

Michael Metz

Investors were encouraged by the inflation figures. There was fear they would be considerably higher.

George Eliot

Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come . . .

Mel Gardner

I know a lot of parents and kids want to specialize and focus on one sport, but we've always encouraged Scott to play what he wants to play. He's been playing three sports since he was 3 years old and he loves playing them all, so we've always encouraged him to try different things.

Paul Vasconi

I have to admit, I wasn't encouraged at first.

Kelly Brownell

I'm very encouraged by what is occurring in schools. One can just see the landscape changing.... At the moment, it's still a minority of schools, but the number is growing and the state legislatures are getting involved in requiring schools to change.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Johnnie Morton

Ken has been throwing some great passes and he knows the system well,

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.

F. Stone

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

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?

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Gary Brown

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Don Briel

The machines are free. The handling, setup and maintenance is not.

Walter Reisch

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

James Hansen

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

Luis Walter Alvarez

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Leo Szilard

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

David Suzuki

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Bill Nye

I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.