Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Perry Barlow

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.

Jane Green

I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

Where did they have this money? In a can? Or was it in a mattress or something? I assume that if you are collecting money, you are collecting interest on it.

I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.

Crystal Bowersox

I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.

Paul Bloom

Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn't assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they're largely the consequence of the mind's attempt to make a rational decision.

Patch Adams

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.

Ken Thompson

Tom is one of the most astute financial professionals I have ever known. We are incredibly fortunate to have an individual with Tom's talents assume the responsibilities of CFO for Wachovia.

Ayelet Waldman

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

You know why. It's Texas. It's the state university of Texas. They just assume that posture. It's their birthright.

We're not there yet but it's not too soon to assume this scenario.

Peter Russell

We're not sorting through the garbage and looking in garbage bags. This is just a visual check and we're going to assume what we see on top represents the garbage beneath.

We're not saying they're worse or that they're terrible vehicles. We're challenging the conventional wisdom that everyone assumed they were better.

We are pursuing a dual strategy in China. First, we have outstanding W-CDMA know-how and the sales successes to match. Second, we assumed a pioneering role for TD-SCDMA in China at the right time.

Helge Ingstad

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.

Yanis Varoufakis

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Tina Brown

To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

Wentworth Miller

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

We don't know yet what the long-term effect will be. You can assume the others will need to respond quickly to this news.

We don't know exactly what their next move will be, but we assume they will return to the hunting grounds.

Barry Larkin

We worked really hard and we worked a lot on the fundamentals of the game and making the basic plays. With special athletes, sometimes that fundamental play gets lost. I know when I first came up, the ball I had the most trouble with was the ball hit right at me, because I assumed I could make that routine play.

We worked in good faith to resolve this issue with Motorola and we are very pleased with the successful outcome, ... The Board selected Mike as we believe he is the best candidate to assume the role of president and CEO and we have every confidence in him. We look forward to a great future together.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Robert Webb

I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.

Pope Benedict XVI

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.

The data revealed some real surprises. Even though most people assumed it wouldn't come back, you could say the forest sort of surprised us with its resilience. Our management goals for early conifer establishment were met even without any effort on our part.

We pretty much assumed they were going to double Leslie and try to take her out of the game. They did a good job on her, but she's a very unselfish player. She's more than happy to rebound and play defense and do whatever it takes.

We prepared for that because we assume Morgan's going to see a lot of box-and-one in the future. We have an offensive set for that and it worked well and we made them come out of it. We were glad because we'd prefer to play them in man.

Trent Reznor

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

Alice Oswald

I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

David Harsanyi

Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.