Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Alan Bennett

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Steve Jobs

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

Dave Barry

Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.

Al Goodman

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

Robin Schneider

(We) are pleased to see them join Dell and H-P in providing free computer recycling for their customers.

Lucien Engelen

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google.

Luis von Ahn

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

James Van Der Beek

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further

Eric Brown

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Twyla Tharp

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

Geno Auriemma

We're 18-2 and it doesn't feel that way. I don't know why. Maybe because you know how many games are really hard to play in and you just keep thinking, 'This is really hard.' If someone figures out what we're not good at, it's good night, Irene.

Gregg Popovich

The pieces have to fit around him. The fortunate thing for us is that it seems that, given enough talent, all pieces fit around Timmy. He figures it out.

Rene Locher

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Arthur Smith

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

Dick Cavett

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

C. S. Lewis

Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.

Bill Vaughan

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Souza

like a ghost town. Nothing open, nobody around.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Holy Ghost will warn us of danger, and it will inspire us to help others in need.

Talulah Riley

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Joseph Butler

Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing

David Costa

We hear Galveston is a ghost town. It's impressive.

Alexander Smith

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Shawn Amos

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

Annalee Newitz

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Scott Greenstein

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.

Caleb Carr

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

Charles Schumer

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Baltasar Gracian

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Jane Goodall

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

Albert Einstein

Warfare cannot be humanized.

Alan Dershowitz

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

Edward Snowden

We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it.

Cecilia Munoz

I think it will be warfare in the Senate.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.