Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hayes

He was one of the most underrated sires in Australia. His statistics tell the story.

Umberto Eco

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

William Gibson

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

Richard Courant

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

William Blake

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

William Blake

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Garry Trudeau

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

Jim Rohn

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

Ben Bernanke

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

Thomas Malthus

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Carlyle

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Nat Friedman

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jacque Jones

He's a big part of the reason I play this game.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.