Heslinga Dixon Quotes & Sayings

You don't need to leverage natural disasters. You don't need to capitalize on civil unrest. You need to be human. It's not always about business. — Scott Stratten

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. — Edward Tufte

When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive). — Richard E. Pattis

I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think also is a civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective, that he cared very, very much about it. — Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

Fate and your dreams can collide — Joe Brooks

Her smiles were blood in the water, his demise the closely lurking shark. — Alessandra Torre

I was stuck in Port Ticonderoga, proud bastion of the common-and-garden variety button and of lower-priced long johns for the budget-minded shoppers. I would stagnate here, nothing would ever happen to me, I would end up an old-maid like Miss Violence, pitied and derided. This at the bottom was my fear. I wanted to be elsewhere, but I saw no way to get there. Once in a while, I found myself hoping that I would be abducted by white slavers, even though I didn't believe in them. At least it would be a change... — Margaret Atwood

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it. — John L. Casti

No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he'd keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing. — Pablo Neruda

No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder. — Ken Simonton

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt. — Jane Wiedlin