Watchmaker Tools Quotes & Sayings

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think. — John P. Kotter

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I. — Greta Garbo

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good? — Plato

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works. — Bill Gates

These were citizens who, never having bothered to awaken to the technological and psychic changes in their world, hadn't bothered to defend themselves, hadn't bothered to build walls or plan counterattacks or build weapons
asleep inside their collective dream, thinking for all the world that the unthinkable would never happen. Thinking they were safe. — Douglas Coupland

All the gods are dead except the god of war. — Eldridge Cleaver

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. — Mark Twain

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow. — Seth Godin

I'm still the way I've always been. Lots of hair and eyes, a bit Raquel Welch-ish. — Jane Badler

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye. Natural selection ... has no purpose in mind'.
I think this distinction is wrong. There is no denying that the human watchmaker is different from the natural one. We humans, by virtue of having memes, can think about cogs, and wheels, and keeping time, in a way that animals cannot. Memes are the mind tools with which we do it. But what memetics shows us is that the processes underlying the two kinds of design are essentially the same. They are both evolutionary processes that give rise to design through selection, and in the process they produce what looks like foresight. — Susan Blackmore

I'm the youngest of three sisters, and my parents have always encouraged all of us to do whatever made us happy. — Michelle Dockery

Steven maneuvered the horse among the cattle that strayed from the herd as easily as if Emma hadn't been mounted in front of him, whistling and waving his hat at times. In calmer moments, he told Emma about Fairhaven, his home in Louisiana. He told her how many children they were going to have, and exactly where each one would be conceived. When they got to Spokane, he promised, he was going to take a hotel room and keep her tossing on the mattress for a full day and night. Emma — Linda Lael Miller

I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.' — Rose Leslie