The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
“I spend a quarter of every day inside you. When you set limits outside of that I can't help but see them… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them. — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a… — Christopher Denham Copy Share Image
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
“No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable… — Benjamin Martin Copy Share Image
Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior. — Ermanno Bencivenga Copy Share Image
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him… — Daniel H. Hill Copy Share Image
