Default Quotes
195 quotes by 174 authors
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Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
— Avital Ronell
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The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
— David Foster Wallace
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If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you,…
— David Foster Wallace
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This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural,…
— David Foster Wallace
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The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if…
— Steve Pavlina
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In any high stress situation you are going to default to your level of training...period.
— Joe Teti
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The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the…
— Thomas Sowell
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The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than…
— Steve McConnell
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I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what…
— Nalo Hopkinson
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I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.
— Bill Huizenga
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Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.
— Andrew Napolitano
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I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money…
— Tony Hsieh
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Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.
— Mike Belkin
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Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you…
— Jay Maisel
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
— Alan Greenspan
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We were one of the first states to move most of our email into the cloud. That's gone really, really well; I think it's exceeded…
— Mike Powell
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In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!
— Tim Sweeney
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There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
— Robert Breault
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The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent…
— Victor Davis Hanson
Who Wrote These Default Quotes
174 authors contributed a total of 195 Default Quotes, led by these top contributors: