Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and… — John Backus Copy Share Image
A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less… — Jerry Gillies Copy Share Image
Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . .… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Central to Möser's view of the human world was "honor," a notion that was as important to corporatist society as the notion… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that… — Louis Wigfall Copy Share Image
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
We bought property after Iniki in '92. I figured we'd never find better bargains. As it turned out, we didn't get a… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist.… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
![“The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory is a fallacy. The theory that ether does not exist, and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy…” quote by Charles Lane Poor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/925/charles-lane-poor-107122_age_the-supposed-astronomical-proofs-of-the_2110797.jpg)
