There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. – J. Paul Getty

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. – Kahlil Gibran

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden

The harder I work, the luckier I get. – Samuel Goldwyn

Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else. – George Halas

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. – Horace

We work to become, not to acquire. – Elbert Hubbard

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. – Elbert Hubbard

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. – Henry J. Kaiser

I work until beer o’clock. – Stephen King

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’ – Don Marquis

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – C. Northcote Parkinson

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. – Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. – Pablo Picasso

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. – Ronald Reagan

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. – Ann Richards

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt

Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. – George Sand

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work. – David Sarnoff

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. – Arnold J. Toynbee

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. – Mark Twain

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. – Booker T. Washington

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. – Oscar Wilde

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with. – Stevie Wonder

Page topic: Good Work quotes: Best famous quotes about Work

Nothing will work unless you do. – Maya Angelou

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. – Betty Bender

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone – many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. – Richard Nelson Bolles

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. – Richard Nelson Bolles

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. – Pearl S. Buck

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. – Al Capp

Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. – Irvin S. Cobb

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. – Calvin Coolidge

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. – John Dewey

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B. – Fats Domino

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. – Peter F. Drucker

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas A. Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. – Thomas A. Edison

There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas A. Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. – Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. – Sam Ewing

It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. – William Faulkner

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. – Anne Frank

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. – Robert Frost

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. – Margaret Fuller

All things are difficult before they are easy. – Thomas Fuller

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still? – J. Paul Getty

Page topic: Good quotes about Work: Some of the best great quotes about Work

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. – Doug Larson

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. – Mary Wilson Little

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H. L. Mencken

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. – Mahfouz Naguib

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? – Friedrich Nietzsche

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Jean Paul

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. – Theodore Roosevelt

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

No man was ever wise by chance. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. – George Bernard Shaw

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. – Tobias Smollett

Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. – Sophocles

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth. – Sara Teasdale

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. – Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom begins at the end. – Daniel Webster

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. – Tom Wilson

Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey

Page topic: Good Wisdom quotes: Best famous quotes about Wisdom

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. – Akhenaton

Patience is the companion of wisdom. – Saint Augustine

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Francis Bacon

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. – Herb Caen

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. – Lord Chesterfield

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. – Charles Dickens

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. – Benjamin Disraeli

The doors of wisdom are never shut. – Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Kahlil Gibran

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. – Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom is a sacred communion. – Victor Hugo

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. – James Gibbons Huneker

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. – William R. Inge

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. – William James

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. – David Starr Jordan

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. – Juvenal

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. – Doug Larson

Page topic: Good quotes about Wisdom: Some of the best great quotes about Wisdom

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. – Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. – Henry A. Kissinger

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. – Robert E. Lee

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann

Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals. – Colman McCarthy

The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. – George McGovern

I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. – George McGovern

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. – John Stuart Mill

“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes. – James Morrow

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. – Jose Narosky

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. – Richard M. Nixon

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. – George S. Patton

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. – Albert Pike

Only the dead have seen the end of the war. – Plato

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in. – Colin Powell

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. – Herbert V. Prochnow

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. – Jeannette Rankin

I couldn’t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We’d find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. – Ronald Reagan

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way. – Will Rogers

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. – Bertrand Russell

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come. – Carl Sandburg

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. – Louis Simpson

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? – Benjamin Spock

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. – Charles Sumner

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. – Henry David Thoreau

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. – Barbara Tuchman

All war is deception. – Sun Tzu

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. – Voltaire

If we don’t end war, war will end us. – H. G. Wells

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. – William Westmoreland

The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars. – William Westmoreland

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. – Fred Woodworth

Page topic: Good War quotes: Best famous quotes about War

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. – John Adams

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov

If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? – Joan Baez

War would end if the dead could return. – Stanley Baldwin

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. – Omar N. Bradley

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. – Omar N. Bradley

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. – Stuart Chase

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. – Winston Churchill

An unjust peace is better than a just war. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? – Gregory Clark

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? – Norman Cousins

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. – Salvador Dali

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. – Thomas A. Edison

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. – Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. – Albert Einstein

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Henry Ellis

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. – Euripides

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! – David G. Farragut

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. – Francois Fenelon

There was never a good war, or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. – David Friedman

Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia. – George Pickett Gettysburg

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. – Ulysses S. Grant

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. – Napoleon Hill

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. – Adolf Hitler

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover

The first casualty when war comes is truth. – Hiram Johnson

I have not yet begun to fight! – John Paul Jones

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – John F. Kennedy

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. – John F. Kennedy

Page topic: Good quotes about War: Some of the best great quotes about War

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. – Doug Larson

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. – C. S. Lewis

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. – Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? – Tillie Olsen

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M. Scott Peck

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. – William Penn

Time is the wisest counsellor of all. – Pericles

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. – John B. Priestly

The Present is a Point just passed. – David Russell

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. – Carl Sandburg

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. – George Bernard Shaw

As if we could kill time without injuring eternity! – Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. – Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery

Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

Page topic: Good Time quotes: Best famous quotes about Time

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. – Dean Acheson

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. – Saint Augustine

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. – Roger Babson

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. – Faith Baldwin

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. – James M. Barrie

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. – Ambrose Bierce

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. – Dion Boucicault

You can never plan the future by the past. – Edmund Burke

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. – Charles Caleb Colton

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. – Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go. – Henry Austin Dobson

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. – William Faulkner

You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. – Kahlil Gibran

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right – it holds my golden time! – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Page topic: Good quotes about Time: Some of the best great quotes about Time

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. – Andy Grove

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. – Andy Grove

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. – Andy Grove

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. – Orrin Hatch

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image. – Stephen Hawking

In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, “Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.” – Grace Murray Hopper

At the end of about a week, I called back and said, “I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?” – Grace Murray Hopper

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous Huxley

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. – Clive James

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. – Penn Jillett

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. – Mitchell Kapor

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. – Alan Kay

The computer is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated. – Alan Kay

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. – John F. Kennedy

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. – John F. Kennedy

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface. – Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. – Jaron Lanier

We’re making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business. – Ralph Lauren

You affect the world by what you browse. – Tim Berners-Lee

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. – Tim Berners-Lee

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools. – Marshall McLuhan

The only thing that I’d rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. – Scott McNealy

Computers shouldn’t be unusable. You don’t need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights. – Scott McNealy

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. – John Stuart Mill

I’m an enemy of what I call ‘computer theology.’ There’s a class conflict out there. There’s a techno-elite that lives in a different world. – Walter Mossberg

If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they’d think it was a garage-door opener. – Walter Mossberg

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. – Edward R. Murrow

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. – Ralph Nader

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. – Georges Pompidou

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. – Lawrence Clark Powell

Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea. – Lawrence Clark Powell

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. – Carl Sagan

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. – Carl Sagan

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. – E. F. Schumacher

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. – B. F. Skinner

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. – Adam Smith

Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. – Carrie P. Snow

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea – massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. – Gene Spafford

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. – John Spencer

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet. – Bruce Sterling

The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity. – Clifford Stoll

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you’re no longer hungry, but you haven’t been nourished. – Clifford Stoll

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? – Clifford Stoll

Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau

Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. – Linus Torvalds

The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it. – Linus Torvalds

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop? – Donald Trump

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. – Larry Wall

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. – Larry Wall

It’s [the internet] like the flu – it just spreads like crazy. – Jack Welch

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. – Alfred North Whitehead

What’s sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good. – Meg Whitman

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. – Oscar Wilde

You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. – Flip Wilson

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Page topic: Good Technology quotes: Best famous quotes about Technology

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go… At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we. – Jim Allchin

Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people. – Stewart Alsop

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. – Stewart Alsop

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. – Jean Arp

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. – John Perry Barlow

One can imagine the government’s problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I’d probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles? – John Perry Barlow

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. – John Perry Barlow

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. – John Perry Barlow

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. – John Perry Barlow

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. – John Perry Barlow

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. – John Perry Barlow

Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. – Dave Barry

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. – Dave Barry

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? – Al Boliska

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. – Omar N. Bradley

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers. – Leonard Brandwein

For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. – Wernher von Braun

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. – Andrew Brown

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who’s never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital. – Vincent Canby

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world. – Jimmy Carter

The Internet is not just one thing, it’s a collection of things – of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. – Jim Clark

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn’t slow down with a new batch of features. – James Coates

The internet is a great way to get on the net. – Bob Dole

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. – Esther Dyson

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. – Freeman Dyson

Encryption…is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government… It’s hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty. – Esther Dyson

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs. – Esther Dyson

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build. – Larry Ellison

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. – Douglas Engelbart

I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. – Brian Eno

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can’t step on it. You can’t go around it. You’ve got to get through it. – John Evans

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. – Richard P. Feynman

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. – Max Frisch

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. – R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented. – R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. – Dennis Gabor

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. – Bill Gates

It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. – William Gibson

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. – William Gibson

The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it. – William Gibson

Why shouldn’t we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? – William Gibson

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. – William Gibson

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort. – William Gibson

Time moves in one direction, memory in another. – William Gibson

The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet. – William Gibson

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. – William Gibson

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. – William Gibson

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. – William Gibson

I don’t have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. – William Gibson

I’ve had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, “How do you know what the future is going to be like?” And I’d always say, “I don’t.” – William Gibson

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. – Arnold H. Glasow

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. – Graham Greene

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