Ed Fredkin Quotes & Sayings

If money is a science, then it is a dark science ... it has gone on developing ... by its own rules — Neal Stephenson

We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business. — Jo Nesbo

I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish. — Bryan Clay

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple. — Richard Preston

Everyone has the right to do his own thing. This slogan is as crass as it is silly. If it were followed by everyone resolutely, society itself would be an impossibility. No one would have any true rights protected, because it at any given moment my rights could trample your rights — R.C. Sproul

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones. — Jay Rayner

Impossible ... Everything is possible when you remove the prefix. — Apollo

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. — Gertrude Stein

Weizenbaum did not acknowledge the beauty of the hacker devotion itself ... orthe very idealism of the Hacker Ethic. He had not seen, as Ed Fredkin had, Stew Nelson composing code on the TECO editor while Greenblatt and Gosper watched: without any of the three saying a word, Nelson was entertaining the others, encoding assembly-language tricks which to them, with their absolute mastery of that PDP-6 "language," had the same effect as hilariously incisive jokes. And after every few instructions there would be another punch line in this sublime form of communication ... The scene was a demonstration of sharing which Fredkin never forgot. — Anonymous

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business. — Gautam Adani

We all look. The lucky find. — Nora Roberts

We live and learn, and in between
we do the best we can. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Half of politics is "image-making", the other half the art of making people believe the imager — Hannah Arendt

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work. — Billy Graham