Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work. — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battered, it also left the survivors with a… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo,… — Christopher Peter Grey Copy Share Image
I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“The progress of humanity is stalled by human hubris. AI’s progress, by their intelligent shortsightedness.” — F.C. Quiles Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Elitists rarely have the temperament to understand real people and real problems, and judges who lead with hubris are dangerous to our… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
