Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noreena Hertz

I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.

Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

William Massey

If a storm makes landfall within a 200-mile radius, it's probably a good forecast, ... Eight, 10 years ago, that was a 300-mile radius. So they are improving the forecasts drastically.

Peter Luxton

Weather forecasts going warmer, colder, warmer will gyrate oil prices around.

Don Brown

The market is terrific, ... The long range forecasts are still very positive. The Indian is a powerful name, probably the most powerful name in the motorcycle world, other than Harley-Davidson. The question is, after you sell the first 1,000 or 500, will there be an ongoing market?

Alex Scott

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

Joseph Unsworth

They needed to diversify because ... all the long-term forecasts for DRAM are not bright.

Phil Flynn

Even though the forecasts are turning colder, traders are already thinking about spring. The market is saying we think the winter is pretty much over given the supplies that we have.

Richard Behnke

So what we're working on with these models is individual forecasts of particular storms. That would be what we're really pressed to look at now.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

Frank Tashlin

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Blake Shelton

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Yoshiharu Izumi

This seems to justify the Westinghouse acquisition from a strategic perspective.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan Watts

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Alan Mulally

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.

Alan Parker

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Alan Perlis

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Alan Perlis

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Alan Perlis

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Moore

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Alan Moore

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.