Guis Quotes & Sayings

He looked again. Longer this time. She may have 'forgotten' to put a bra on that morning. Another oops.
"Are you kidding me with that?" he asked. — Julie James

Hell if I know. I'm twenty-six, single, just signed a year lease on an apartment ... " She touched her eyebrows with her fingertips. "Damn, why did I move back here?"
"Sorry." I grimaced. "The job market isn't as bad as it was. I'd give you a job if you really needed one."
"Thanks. Not sure how good of a bouncer I would be."
"Maybe hair holder for drunk girls."
"Sounds great," she said flatly then made a gagging sound. — Nicole Castro

Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence. — Irving Howe

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul. — Debbie Ford

I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency? — Jef Raskin

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves! — Alexandre Dumas

the punishment itself could never be as bad as the anticipation — Marie-Louise Jensen

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things. — A.E. Van Vogt

It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible. — Ted Ligety

Men plan. Fate Laughs. — Jim Butcher

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself. — William Temple

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God. — Wayne Grudem

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money. — John Dos Passos

Americans' preference for mediated experiences is obvious enough, and I'm not going to keep pounding it into the ground. I'm not even going to make snotty comments about it - after all, I was at Disney World as a paying customer. But it clearly relates to the colossal success of GUIs, and so I have to talk about it some. Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush Microsoft in a year or two. — Neal Stephenson

The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news. — Leonard Susskind

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." — Robert Breault

A motel is where you give up good dollars for bad quarters. — Henny Youngman

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. — C.S. Lewis

GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. — Douglas Gwyn

GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages. — Neal Stephenson