Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Dyson

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

Bram Cohen

When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.

Bram Cohen

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

You can not define being exactly on time.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

Sid Meier

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

Dan Farmer

You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

Alfred Kinsey

We are recorders and reporters of the facts - not judges of the behavior we describe.

Yoshiro Mori

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

Yoshiro Mori

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.

E. O. Wilson

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

Benjamin Spock

You know more than you think you do.

Will Wright

For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.

Will Wright

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

Loren Eiseley

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Michael Behe

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.

Michael Behe

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

Michael Behe

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.

Dennis Ritchie

True enough that standards bodies themselves have weak teeth, but they do have influence and importance when a language begins to be widely used.

Howard Aiken

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

We are now awaiting an Ohio state Supreme Court decision to enable us to have a civil hearing. We have extensive evidence on our primary suspect.