Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Bill Vaughan

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Bill Blass

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

Ingrid Reed

I was struck by the simplicity of it.

Charles Darwin

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

Bertrand Russell

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

Mike Crapo

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Edsger Dijkstra

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Alfred North Whitehead

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Rachel Gibson

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Michelle Birdsong

That's the whole purpose of putting them on the line. Those have to be our rebounds.

Ian Bell

I was purposely trying to slow him down, to play at my pace, with me in my little bubble.

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ned Yost

I think we all were (impressed). There's some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.