Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Surowiecki

There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

James Monroe

The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

James Madison

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

Ellen Malcolm

Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.

Ellen Goodman

Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

Eric Ripert

Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.

Eric S. Raymond

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

Eric Ries

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

Eric Ries

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

Epicurus

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Epicurus

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

Ellsworth Huntington

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Edward Tufte

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Heinrich Himmler

I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organisation called the Security Service.

Heston Blumenthal

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling

Helen Reddy

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Helena Bonham Carter

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

Heinz Pagels

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Heinz Pagels

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

Kurt Fuller

I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

Khalil Gibran

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Kerry Washington

There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

Napoleon Hill

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Norman McLaren

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

Norman Maclean

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

Norman Ralph Augustine

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Orson Pratt

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

Oliver Sacks

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.