Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serge Lang

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

Sidney Poitier

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Seth Grahame-Smith

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

Noam Chomsky

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components... the syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation. The first of these is interpreted by the semantic component; the second, by the phonological component.

John Ashbery

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.

Mark Zupan

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

Mark Zuckerberg

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

Terrell Owens

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

Terrell Owens

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

Ted Nelson

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

Ted Nelson

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Ted Nelson

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.

Ted Cruz

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

Theodor Adorno

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Terry McAuliffe

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Terry Pratchett

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

Terry Pratchett

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

Michael Flatley

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

Michael Behe

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

Michael Bloomberg

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

Melinda Gates

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

Michele Bachmann

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

Michael Palin

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

Leonhard Euler

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Leonhard Euler

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

Paul Ford

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

Patrick McGoohan

Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.

Patrick Ness

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

Patrick Rothfuss

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

Patrick Rothfuss

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Lilly Singh

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.