Avgerinos Theodoros Quotes & Sayings

To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize. — Edwidge Danticat

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job. — Guy Kawasaki

However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution. — Pete Seeger

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion," and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make. - IRVING JOHN GOOD, "SPECULATIONS CONCERNING THE FIRST ULTRAINTELLIGENT MACHINE," 1965 — Ray Kurzweil

The desire that I may have no desire is itself a desire. — R.N. Prasher

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there. — Bjork

resplendent chambers of a true king's tomb. — Dean Koontz

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever. — James E. Lovelock

I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat! — Lee Priest

To know is to memorize.
To understand is to utilize.
The accumulation of knowledge is learnedness.
The accumulation of wisdom is experience. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it. — Sidney Crosby

I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness. — Stephen A. Schwarzman

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it ... At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think. — Henry David Thoreau

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need trouble himself further about their entertainment. The putting of dispersed sets of volumes together, or the turning right way up of those which the dusting housemaid has left in an apoplectic condition, appeals to them as one of the lesser Works of Mercy. Happy in these employments, and in occasionally opening an eighteenth-century octavo, to see 'what it is all about,' and to conclude after five minutes that it deserves the seclusion it now enjoys, I had reached the middle of a wet August afternoon at Betton Court ...
-the beginning of the story A Neighbor's Landmark — M.R. James