The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Many say that DOS is the dark side [from Star Wars], but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less… — Lore Sjoberg Copy Share Image
All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
Do you know who is ready to go with the presidential campaign? Jeb Bush. Jeb already has plans to end the war… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.” His voice was weirdly inflected… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius:… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill.… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel… — Dean Israelite Copy Share Image
After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us. — Friedrich Kittler Copy Share Image
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
