Bjornar Nicolaisen Quotes & Sayings

What do drunkards do? They ... drink ... themselves ... to ... death. — William Seabrook

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike. — Mike McCue

the recent changes in our reading habits suggest that the "era of mass [book] reading" was a brief "anomaly" in our intellectual history: "We are now seeing such reading return to its former social base: a self-perpetuating minority that we shall call the reading class." The question that remains to be answered, they went on, is whether that reading class will have the "power and prestige associated with an increasingly rare form of cultural capital" or will be viewed as the eccentric practitioners of "an increasingly arcane hobby. — Anonymous

The ultimate test of agility is whether you can keep all your stakeholders happy. — Jurgen Appelo

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. — Jules Renard

But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property. — Edward Jenks

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl. — Vladimir Nabokov

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain. — Conrad Black

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop? — Arthur Miller

I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs. — John Sulston

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself. — Stephen Mitchell

Intuitive errors are normally much more frequent among ego-depleted people, and the drinkers of Splenda showed the expected depletion effect. On the other hand, the glucose drinkers were not depleted. Restoring the level of available sugar in the brain had prevented the deterioration of performance. — Daniel Kahneman