System Administrator Appreciation Day Quotes & Sayings

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction. — Richard Dawkins

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on? — Hermann Maier

I told him I was sorry. He sighed and held me closer, his lips against the shell of my ear, "You will be, Kitten". — C.J. Roberts

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients. — Mary Hart

After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky. — Ronit Roy

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times. — Tom Stoppard

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies. — Hari Sreenivasan

A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age. — Wolfgang Pauli

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home. — Madeleine Albright

I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it. — Rudy Giuliani

In the modern era, many thinkers began to mistrust faith, viewing it as 'blind' and an enemy of reason. Their watchword was 'reason alone.' One of the difficulties of this stance is that reason cannot test its own reliability, any more than soapstone can test its own hardness. Any argument, accomplished by reasoning, that what reasoning accomplishes can be trusted, would be circular, because it would take for granted the very thing that it was trying to prove.
Suppose I am at the window of a burning building. Although I can hear the firemen calling to me from far below, I cannot see them because of all the smoke. They are telling me to jump. Though I may have every reason to believe that they will catch me in their net, I may not trust them enough to overcome my fear, and so, hesitating, I burn to death. Obviously, my reasons are not the same as trust; faith surpasses reason. Even so they are reasons for trust; though faith surpasses reason, it is not irrational. — J. Budziszewski