Browsing Quotes, page 60
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I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
Speaker: Don DeLilloPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the best ways to win any game is to write the rules.
Speaker: Michael S. MalonePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To the man who only has a hammer in the tool kit, every problem looks like a nail.
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Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Speaker: Robertson DaviesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
Speaker: John F. KennedyPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Speaker: John CleesePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Speaker: Joseph JoubertPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
Speaker: Groucho MarxPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
Speaker: Clifford StollPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Speaker: E. W. DijkstraPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Speaker: Rich CookPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us?
Speaker: Lois McMaster BujoldPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
Speaker: G. H. HardyPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Speaker: Lisa AltherPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
Speaker: Robert WilenskyPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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