Proefjes Quotes & Sayings

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking. — Tim O'Reilly

African American Congressman Bobby Rush wore a hoodie on the floor of Congress to make a point this week. And they threw him out. They said a hoodie is too scary for Congress. Too scary? Have you ever looked into Michele Bachmann's eyes? — Bill Maher

7Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. — Anonymous

I only wish I'd known night would fall on our tomorrows. — Rachel Thompson

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have. — Ben Goldacre

Life does wait, if only for a limited time. — Ross Turner

We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity. — Patti Smith

Ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity. — Kelley Armstrong

Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth. — Nachman Of Breslov

The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information. — Tim O'Reilly

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,. — Douglas Brinkley

Perhaps, however, music retains a survival role in adults in that it allows the 'practice' of feeling emotions without having to risk the consequences of acting on these emotions. — Isabelle Peretz

If you fall in love, you feel forever young. — Lailah Gifty Akita