The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
No, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United… — Martin Harris Copy Share Image
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or… — John Cage Copy Share Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history.… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition,… — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I no longer become angry. I not only do not say angry words, I do not even think angry thoughts! If someone… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate… — Edward S. Jordan Copy Share Image
Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés,… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too.… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking in this fantastic AC hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your… — Vincent McNabb Copy Share Image
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?" In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or György], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image