Ultimate Quotes
2059 quotes by 1507 authors
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
— David Gelernter
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A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no…
— Humphry Davy
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My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about,…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is…
— Starhawk
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The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is…
— Romeo Dallaire
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The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment.…
— Dogen
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The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he…
— Francis Hutcheson
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Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have…
— David Morrell
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The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
— Michael Pollan
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Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to…
— Joe Satriani
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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do…
— William J. Brennan
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.
— Abe Fortas
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The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything…
— Don Shula
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Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to…
— C. J. Mahaney
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The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
— R. Kent Hughes
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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
— R C Sproul
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