Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cory Doctorow

This seemed insanely limiting. So ... Yahoo tells me to deliberately keep a large number of users from seeing my pages, but won't even suggest a way to do this. Clever, huh?

We all know the language of need, so we can communicate.

Stephen Jay Gould

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

Stephen Jay Gould

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

Stephen Jay Gould

Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).

Stephen Jay Gould

A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.

Catullus

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh

The other night I told Larry he doesn't have to score every possession. He should be getting double-digit rebounds and some assists.

There is no reason for us not to go after large mergers.

There is no integrity, because of a lack of law enforcement and regulatory control,

There is not always a 'happy end' a la Hollywood.

Kevin Hall

There is not $150 million laying on the table.

There is no strategy to sell any large number of stores.

There could be a lot less spending. Most of the network build-out for larger telecom players is already done,

Michael Vaughan

We will probably leave it until the last minute to see which way we go,

We will play our ladder matches at the end of the week (today, Friday).

Ultimately you will end up with a larger SPR.

We will be running the Lady Razorback on Thursday, and the Razorback on Friday.

We will be much, much stronger in Turin than in Salt Lake City.

Michael Evans

We will be better prepared this year than we were last year.

We had to be even more selective than last year.

Ian Woosnam

This was my last tournament of the year and it's a disappointing way to finish. I'll go and have a rest now,

This was just a really well-played game. It was just a matter of which team would get the late break.

This week will be a whole lot like last month.

We competed all the way to the end, but I think we did run out of gas, especially late in the game.

We don't want this to get back to last year. We want this to stop here. We want to get back to playing the way we were playing.

We have been playing quite well lately and just simply had one of the worst weeks in a long, long time on the greens.

Charles Lewis

We have been lied to in every military escapade in the last 50 or 60 years, without exception.

We qualified 700 tech workers who've been laid off within the last three years, ... and used their responses exclusively.

We don't begrudge Mark from making a living, just not in law enforcement.

Jerry Spinelli

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

Jean Todt

When I was going up to the podium, I said to Michael that I could not remember the way any more, as it had been such a long time since the last victory.

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.