Absolutewrite Com Quotes & Sayings

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level. — Donald Knuth

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all. — Harriet Martineau

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There's a man who's been out sailing
In a decade full of dreams
And he takes her to a schooner
And he treats her like a queen
Bearing beads from California
With their amber stones and green
He has called her from the harbor
He has kissed her with his freedom
He has heard her off to starboard
In the breaking and the breathing
Of the water weeds
While she was busy being free — Joni Mitchell

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! — Ronald Reagan

If the entity allows [the relationships with individuals] to produce a hardening of the heart, or of a determination to get even, or of those conditions that hold for discontent, malice, or otherwise, these must surely bring the destructive forces that build that which the entity must meet; for, in truth, that builded in the mental forces of a body is as active in the experiences as must come to the entity as were done in the very material act ... — Edgar Cayce

Everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short. — Harry Crews

God gives us enemies to make sure there'll always be someone around who's interested in how we're doing. — James D. Macdonald

This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity. — Salvador Allende

Minutes after the shootings, everybody's cell phone rang. — Francine Prose

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator? — Jonathan Falwell

This last possibility [of developing psychosis] is aways present if the individual begins to identify himself too exclusively with that part of him which feels unembodied. — R.D. Laing

There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat. — Bruce Nauman