Davalance Quotes & Sayings

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. — Leslie Lamport

Nunca se debe gatear, cuando se tiene el impulso de volar (Never crawl when the impulse is to fly) — Helen Keller

We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet. — Sue Halpern

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do. — Hugh Grant

It's hard to have a relationship in this world. Other people are not the same from day to day. I might wake up next to a woman three days in a row, or three hundred, but I never know if she'll be there the next morning, or the next hour, or if the world will change completely while I'm not looking. She might even change into another person altogether. I might recognize something in her eyes, or she might not be a woman at all. She might turn into a man. Or a mailbox. Or a region of empty space. Or a feeling. Or a song. I might only recognize her as one recognizes someone in a dream, as in the way something is actually someone, and that someone is actually someone else. — Charles Yu

[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress. — Eleanor Perenyi

I have two grandchildren. I want to hand them a planet and community that is really thriving. — Donald Berwick

I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. — Willy Russell

We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It's simply not true. — Nick Hanauer

People who have nothing to do always lack time. Perish all those who do not think as we do. Reason is a feeble weapon in contending with a woman. Words that sounded kindly, but with a cold, unloving heart. — Georg Ebers

The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture. — Kenny Smith

What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us? — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine — Gautama Buddha

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky