Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Hertzfeld

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

Orville Wright

We decided to place the motor to one side of the man, so that in case of a plunge head first, the motor could not fall upon him.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Vinton Cerf

I expect that the entertainment industry will have gone through its own convulsion in the same way the telecom industry will have gone through its.

Rick Baker

Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances.

Vinton Cerf

People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.

Thomas A. Edison

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

Edwin Armstrong

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

David Sarnoff

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Karl Shapiro

But this invites the occult mind, Cancels our physics with a sneer, And spatters all we knew of denouement,Across the expedient and wicked stones.

Troy Newman

The president seems to do what is politically expedient, versus what is morally correct. Therefore, if we make it politically expedient for him to do the moral thing, that's what he'll do.

Don Cherry

We always trained together because the training is so intense, ... Hindsight is 20-20 - maybe that wasn't the expedient thing for me to do. I thought I was doing a good thing, offering my services.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.