Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Battelle

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

Avigdor Lieberman

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

Bill Gates

We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without compromising their distinctive underlying capabilities.

Lleyton Hewitt

There's no doubt in my mind that it's not the greatest surface for injuries either. I think it causes a lot of friction on your body.

The spectacle is secondary, ... What I really like about it is there's a friction between good and evil.

The sweepers originated in the old days, to brush away debris from the ice. Now that the game is played indoors they are used to create friction on the ice, allowing the stone to travel further.

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

Mark Zuckerberg

Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

Scott Adams

My brain doesn't register it as drawing. The feeling of friction across the glass is different.

Brian Eno

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

We view any actions by the KLA -- or any other armed bands of paramilitaries or armed groups that cause friction or raise tensions -- as being entirely unacceptable.

There is a big temperature contrast between the warm ocean water and the cold ice, and melting occurs at a very rapid rate. The melting reduces the friction that holds these glaciers back, allowing them to accelerate.

Bill Bruford

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

Jack Horkheimer

When you have a small object traveling at an incredibly high velocity, slamming into the earth's atmosphere, the friction makes the speeding object heat up so much that it can internally fracture and turn into what we call a fireball,

John Boyega

Finn doesn't have as much respect for Han's legacy as everybody else does, and Han finds that a bit charming. They team up and go on a mission together. The banter is very choppy, and the dialogue is pretty funny. Chewie enjoys the banter and the friction between the two, but they definitely have each other's backs.

Raymond Arroyo

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

Swami Vivekananda

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

Hermann von Helmholtz

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

Matt Hasselbeck

He sets the standard really high, especially at the quarterback position and he isn't going to settle for anything less. Bottom line is he just wants you to do things his way and if you do that, things will work out and he will be happy and you won't have that friction as long as things are going well. It isn't all the on the quarterback but you just have to make it right.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

Dave Morin

In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.

Peter Drucker

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

It was hard to ask anybody to take part in something that would get you stigmatized and make earning a living tough for you, not to say create friction with your family and so on.

(Gangs) look for a place they don't get friction from the neighborhood.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

The electoral programs of both coalitions are the result of the new proportional law. Both sides have diluted content to a very high degree to avoid friction within the coalition. After the election whoever wins will have to be more decisive.

You've got the same problem as a car on Earth on a sheet of ice. There is very little friction between the wheels and the surface.

Henry Ward Beecher

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Napoleon Hill

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

Leo Burnett

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

Salman Rushdie

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.