Working Quotes

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Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier
That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer. — Paul Leary
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible… — Albert Hofmann
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and… — Otto Hermann Kahn
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in… — Walter E. Williams
To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient… — Canvass White
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels… — Arthur Compton
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against… — Leigh Brackett
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs… — J. B. Priestley
It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to… — Sherrie Levine
There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do .… — Charles Simonds
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of… — Daniel Dennett
Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing being lazy, you… — Tsem Tulku
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.… — Hokusai
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,… — Friedrich Engels
...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by… — J. Stalin
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing… — Will Allison

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