Manavala Quotes & Sayings

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac ) — Seymour Cray

Look at yourself on the day that you graduated from college, then look at yourself today. I did that recently and it was like, 'Yikes! What the hell happened? — David Sedaris

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Meanings can indeed be forgotten, but only if we have chosen to bring to bear upon the text a singular scrutiny. Yet reading does not consist in stopping the chain of systems, in establishing a truth, a legality of the text, and consequently in leading its reader into "errors"; it consists in coupling these systems, not according to their finite quantity, but according to their plurality (which is a being, not a discounting): I pass, I intersect, I articulate, I release, I do not count. Forgetting meanings is not a matter for excuses, an unfortunate defect in performance; it is an affirmative value, a way of asserting the irresponsibility of the text, the pluralism of systems (if I closed their list, I would inevitably reconstitute a singular, theological meaning): it is precisely because I forget that I read. — Roland Barthes

I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was: Would it work? The acid test is in performance, not promises. It is not from weakness that one commands respect. As long as the leaders take care of their people, they will obey the leaders. — Mr. Lee

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind. — Eda LeShan

She could sense a mistake even before it happened, or perhaps she caused them with her accusatory eyes. — Ainslie Hogarth

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story. — Jeff VanderMeer

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same. — Kyo Maclear

If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus. — Brigham Young

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'. — Walton Goggins

replace the motherboard," he said, handing the old one to me. "Go look through that junk pile of computer parts that's sitting in the corner." I did as he asked. By the time I found a match, Brandon had my hard drive connected to another computer. "Good news is, the hard drive is fine," he said. "The bad news is, without that — Roger Stimpy

But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God. — Martin Luther