Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Eduardo Galeano

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Edward Abbey

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Edward Abbey

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Edward Abbey

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

Edward Abbey

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Edward Abbey

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

Edward Abbey

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Edward Abbey

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

Edward Abbey

I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

Edward Abbey

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Edward Abbey

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

Edward Abbey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Edward Abbey

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Edward Abbey

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

Edward Abbey

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

Edward Abbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Edward Abbey

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Edward Abbey

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Edward Abbey

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Edward Abbey

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

Edward Abbey

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Edward Abbey

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

Edward Abbey

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.

Eddie O'Sullivan

It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.

Eddie Obeng

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

Eddie Sutton

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.