Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Dunnett

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Jim Collins

We're an entrainment company, so content is prime and we want to preserve the quality of the programming. As this is satellite radio, not analogue radio, you do have some limitations, but we felt that 50 hours of recordable capability went a long way to satisfying demand.

Rob Enderle

The analogue on the car side is probably Porsche. Because its design is so important to users, it has a lot more impact on the market than its market share would indicate.

Struan Robertson

We wanted to provide as much of a simulation of the golf swing as we could without making the game as tough as the real sport. Professional golfers have a huge variety of shots available, not just shots they choose from a menu before they play them. We've made the analogue swing even more analogue.

Nick Horne

At the moment, we have more opportunities than engineers. The right staff have ample chance not only to exploit their core skill of digital or analogue circuit design, but also to get involved with the wider mixed-signal IC team to integrate the various circuit elements, to verify and test the design, and bring the complete solution to market.

Andy Duncan

The strategy we are pursuing is designed to transition Channel 4 from a single analogue channel to a multi-media operation, capable of delivering its public remit via whatever platform audiences choose.

Chantal Claret

There were no girlfriends, no boyfriends, no family ? it was like summer camp except with analogue equipment and Gil Norton.

Teju Cole

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of chess.

Pete Martinez

We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

Jack Womack

We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track of where everybody is.

Bobby Fischer

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

Bobby Fischer

There's no one alive I can't beat.

Kevin Black

I wouldn't be surprised if he was a chess master. He likes competition and has fun competing.

Gene Chizik

I think their M.O. has been, if they do something new, to do it early and see what you do. They're really looking intently to see what you do so they know where to go with the next step. It's a chess game. If you don't play it well, they come back and do it again. If you do play it well, they go to Plan B.

Chris Jacobs

He's been doing an excellent job. When he goes out on defense, he's got more energy. (Porters Chapel) made some good adjustments, double-teamed him and did a good job of running away from him. We did move him where they were running, and it was a chess game. But he's turned into his own.

Paul Greening

He was a well-liked student with lots of friends. He was a good math student and a good chess player.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Alan Cooper

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

Alan Cooper

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Alan Cooper

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Alan Cooper

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

Chris Campbell

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

Chip Kidd

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Chere' Moore

We swam some very smart races Thursday and overall I'm pleased with the whole team effort.

Scott Skiles

I thought overall it was one of Kirk's better games.

Tommy Hickox

Overall we've been playing a lot better, especially over the spring break. I really think we're starting to play well.

Tim Moe

Overall we really took it to them and the only time they could get it out of their end was when we were on the penalty kill.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.

Tim O'Brien

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

Martin Freeman

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

Michael Panzner

You always get a little first trading session euphoria, which is partly psychological and partly technically related to inflows.

Richard Artschwager

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Chris Whitaker

Until you've won a title you'll never be completely happy.

Robbie Earl

Yes, I have that kind of title on my back. But I'll put up my numbers. It's just going to be a little harder.

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

Adelaide Kane

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

Alison Krauss

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.