Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brin

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

Antonin Artaud

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Dick Clark

I don't make culture. I sell it.

Al Yankovic

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

Al Gore

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

Charles Colson

Culture is religion incarnate.

Sam Altman

Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.

Kirk Hammett

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

Augusten Burroughs

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Larry Fitzgerald

I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.

Eric Kandel

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.

Pankaj Mishra

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

John Varvatos

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

Scott Edgar

My goal now is to do what I did at Murray State, to be a great mid-major program. We can be regionally dominant and nationally competitive. It's a great fit for me.

Marc Walters

She has been our most dominant player. She's made herself into a marquee performer.

Jake Herlihy

She was everything as advertised. She's a dominant player, very strong and physical.

Will Sheridan

When you think about it, it's natural to double our guards because they are amazing. They are the dominant force of our offense. But when I have the open shot I take it.

Matt Brown

We felt like Barrett Moore was a dominant blocker and we have a lot of respect for him,

David Hilbert

Geometry is the most complete science.

David Hilbert

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

David Hume

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.

Astro Teller

Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

Charles Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Charles Kettering

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Charles Kettering

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Laura Wade

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Arthur Koestler

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

Arthur Koestler

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

David Hockney

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

David Hockney

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

David Hockney

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

David Dixon

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

David Bromstad

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

David Brooks

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

Ben Whishaw

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

Benazir Bhutto

The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

Beau Garrett

I'm as far away from technology as possible. But I like to be as present as possible.