Able Quote by John Henry Holland

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and…

— James Taylor

A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies…

— John Taylor Gatto

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

— Willis Lamb

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich…

— Harold Laski

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every…

— Aristotle

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we…

— Lewis Thomas

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They…

— Amitabh Bachchan

We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the people who…

— Jonathan Ive

With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel