Productivity Quote by Alex Wright

You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

— Anonymous

“When he introduced himself as Dewey, I said, “It’s an honor to meet you Mr. Decimalsystem.”

— Jarod Kintz

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second…

— Tim Harford

“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced in current…

— Mark R. Levin

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like…

— Brian Selznick

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

— Harold Bloom

“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly,…

— Jeanette Winterson

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was…

— Christopher Paolini

“The Professor doesn’t have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I’d go by Richard or Rich . . . not…

— Simone Elkeles

“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and attended by…

— Michael Finkel

“If I had a brontosaurus, I would name him Horace or Morris. But if suddenly one day he had A lot of little brontosauri-…

— shel silverstein