Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Rheingold

Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

Howard Rheingold

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Howard Rheingold

We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

Harvey Weinstein

There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.

Harold Ramis

I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

James Daly

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

James Brolin

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

James Brown

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

Jackee Harry

You become self-conscious and you begin to criticize yourself so much and watch yourself, and I don't want to ever do that. I want to be able to be free and explore. So I won't really watch it, but I would love to do, like, The Incredibles, or something like that. I would love to do a movie that's really, really good and animated. Inside Out, something like that. Something really smart.

James G. Stavridis

Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

James Gandolfini

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

James Frey

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.

Paul Ryan

Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.

Julia Phillips

We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.

Julia Roberts

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Julia Roberts

I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'

Julia Roberts

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

Julia Roberts

I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.

Julia Roberts

I wouldn't have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I'm so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It's just stupendous.

Julia Quinn

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

Judd Apatow

I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do."

Leonardo DiCaprio

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Paul Reiser

As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.

Paul Reiser

I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me. But I couldn't write a space movie if you put a gun to my head.

Park Chan-wook

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act.

Paris Hilton

I’m not, like, that smart.

Paris Hilton

I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.

Paris Hilton

I'm not like that smart. I like, forget stuff all the time.

Padma Lakshmi

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

Lily Collins

I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

Lev Grossman

About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

Lauren Myracle

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.