It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ;… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144) — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite)… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field. — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that… — William F. Longgood Copy Share Image
Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
