Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Sharon Cannon

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

Bill Watterson

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

Paul Jewell

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

Ken Williams

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Dennis Hastert

out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

Debra Roberts

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Thomas Bauer

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

William Cowper

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

Bill Cosby

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

Berkeley Breathed

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Arnold Schoenberg

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Bertrand Russell

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Bill Belichick

I think, for the most part, you're looking at players who are in roles, or situations, as probably being the swing guys on those numbers. I don't know if the geniuses referred to that or not. Probably not,

John Beckman

He is the very spirit of inventive genius that this museum looks to inspire people with.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Matthew Arnold

It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Carol Ann Duffy

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Alan Lightman

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

Dennis Ritchie

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new