Push Button System Quotes & Sayings

As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse. — Bruce Tognazzini

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software. — Nat Friedman

Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink. — Brian Andreas

But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane. — Eminem

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first - she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance - actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She — F Scott Fitzgerald

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society ... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant. — John Henry Newman

Some people suffer quietly, while others suffer loudly. Who do you prefer to be around? Which are you? — Tom Cunningham

We have the ability to survive anything. — Bill Courtney

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot."
"That I will, unless he gets me under his."
"Never easy, kicking upwards. — Joe Abercrombie

Women are people too". — R. Alan Woods

I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people. — David Brooks

Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred. — George Armitage Miller

The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future. — E. Leo Foster

As for the public, the PR man, like the advertising expert and others who deal with people in the lump, including a number of would-be-statesmen and redeemers-at-large, conceive of that body as composed of non-ideographic units which are to be regarded not as ourselves but as, ultimately, gadgets of electrochemical circuitry operated by a push-button system of remote control. In fact, in dealing with the public in a purely technological society, the very notion of self is bypassed by various appeals to an undifferentiated unconscious, such appeals often having little or no relation to the vendible object or idea; in this connection history gives us to contemplate the fact that the psychologist J.B. Watson, the founder of American behaviorism, wound up in the advertising business. So history may become parable. — Robert Penn Warren